Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Mermaids

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

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#1
The Pregnancy Project

The Pregnancy Project

2012★ 6.7

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

The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of p...

#2
How to Have Sex

How to Have Sex

2023★ 6.2

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

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives....

#3
George Washington

George Washington

2000★ 6.7

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

During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own...

#4
Beast

Beast

2018★ 6.5

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

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of b...

#5
Young Mothers

Young Mothers

2025★ 6.5

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

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselv...

#6
The Florida Project

The Florida Project

2017★ 7.4

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

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults aro...

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