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10 Best Movies Like Yes, I Can't Swim

If you loved Yes, I Can't Swim, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#2
I'm Not Here

I'm Not Here

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is....

#3
Kamui

Kamui

2009★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family....

#4
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yes, I Can't Swim 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....

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