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10 Best Movies Like What the Water Keeps

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

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Water Keeps 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
Not Without Hope

Not Without Hope

2025★ 6.3

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

A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival....

#6
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

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