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10 Best Movies Like Waterland

If you loved Waterland, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Stay

Stay

2005★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- e...

#2
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

1993★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The ...

#3
The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman

1985★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union....

#4
Lolita

Lolita

1997★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Cha...

#5
The Aviator

The Aviator

2004★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while...

#6
Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterland for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....