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10 Best Movies Like The Crab Basket

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

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#1
Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

2022★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan ...

#2
White Wedding

White Wedding

1989★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone....

#3
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#4
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

#5
Private Fears in Public Places

Private Fears in Public Places

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in tim...

#6
What the Day Owes the Night

What the Day Owes the Night

2012★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crab Basket for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Em...

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