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Movies Like Holy Water

If you liked Holy Water, a drama movie directed by Mateo Manrique Amaya, 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.

  1. 1Ben Is Back

    Ben Is Back (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new…

  2. 2Room

    Room (2015)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

  3. 3Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…

  4. 4Byzantium

    Byzantium (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.

  5. 5Natural Born Killers

    Natural Born Killers (1994)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

  6. 6Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  7. 7Nocturnal Animals

    Nocturnal Animals (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics…

  8. 8'night, Mother

    'night, Mother (1986)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

  9. 9War Room

    War Room (2015)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful…

  10. 10The Starling Girl

    The Starling Girl (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

  11. 11The Chronology of Water

    The Chronology of Water (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.

  12. 12The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the…

  13. 13Ordinary People

    Ordinary People (1980)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always…

  14. 14The Forge

    The Forge (2024)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum – to…

  15. 15Tideland

    Tideland (2005)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

  16. 16A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so…

  17. 17Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  18. 18Gimme Shelter

    Gimme Shelter (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

  19. 19The Warning

    The Warning (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.

  20. 20The Sixth Sense

    The Sixth Sense (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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