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Movies Like Black Ocean

If you liked Black Ocean (2011), a drama movie directed by Marion Hänsel, 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. 1Heaven Will Wait

    Heaven Will Wait (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world…

  2. 2My Brother the Devil

    My Brother the Devil (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic…

  3. 3Once in a Lifetime

    Once in a Lifetime (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national history competition.

  4. 4Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  5. 5Breathe

    Breathe (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.

  6. 6Antigone

    Antigone (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Sophie Deraspe’s adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman’s quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal.

  7. 7I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  8. 8Chaos

    Chaos (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…

  9. 9Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  10. 10Darling

    Darling (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is…

  11. 11My Little Princess

    My Little Princess (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of…

  12. 12Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  13. 13Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  14. 14The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  15. 15The Adopted

    The Adopted (2011)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and…

  16. 16Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  17. 17The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  18. 18The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  19. 19The Short History of the Long Road

    The Short History of the Long Road (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new…

  20. 20150 Milligrams

    150 Milligrams (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

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