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10 Best Movies Like When the Sea Rises

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

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#1
Strictly Sexual

Strictly Sexual

2008★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes....

#2
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

#3
Love & Sex

Love & Sex

2000★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of th...

#4
(Untitled)

(Untitled)

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art....

#5
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

#6
Our Story

Our Story

1984★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sea Rises for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the c...

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