Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like A Son at Sea

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for A Son at Sea.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#2
Blast

Blast

2022★ 6.7

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

In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situatio...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
Angel Face

Angel Face

2018★ 6.2

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

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to ye...

#6
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

Advertisement