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10 Best Movies Like The Wavebreaker

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

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#1
Trafficking

Trafficking

2023★ 6.1

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

Fresh out of prison, a former debt collector working for a gangland boss is told he has a terminal brain tumour. In an attempt to atone for his past he rescues a young girl from tr...

#2
Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

1955★ 6.8

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

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly....

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wavebreaker 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....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wavebreaker 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...

#5
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

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

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#6
The Stoker

The Stoker

2010★ 6.1

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

A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps bus...

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