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10 Best Movies Like Waterfront

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

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#1
Train Dreams

Train Dreams

2025★ 7.3

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

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America....

#2
Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty

1996★ 6.7

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

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier...

#3
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

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

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

#4
In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle

2016★ 5.8

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

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, a...

#5
Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waterfront for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him...

#6
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

2001★ 6.0

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

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander....

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