Movies Like Quicksand
If you liked Quicksand (2025), a drama movie directed by Rebecca Coley, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Still Alice (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAlice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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Memory (2023)
★ 7/10Also dramaSylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will…
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The Father (2020)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
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Age of Consent (1969)
★ 6/10Also dramaAn elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young…
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The Edge of the World (1937)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
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Interiors (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaWhen Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment…
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Head Full of Honey (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaFrank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several…
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Goodbye June (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFour siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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In the Bedroom (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaSummertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music…
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The Whales of August (1987)
★ 7/10Also dramaTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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What They Had (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
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The Music Never Stopped (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaHenry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and…
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Knox Goes Away (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the…
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Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaTwo years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.
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Dreamchild (1985)
★ 6.6/10Also drama80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's…
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The Life of Chuck (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaIn this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
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Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.