Movies Like The Last Wave

If you liked The Last Wave (1977), a drama and mystery movie directed by Peter Weir, 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
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…
2
Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and fantasy
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
3
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
4
Dead Man (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and fantasy
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
5
Agnes of God (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex…
6
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and mystery
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…
7
Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
8
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…
9
The Conversation (1974)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mystery
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
10
K-PAX (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mystery
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
11
The Shepherd (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
12
Dragonfly (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasy and mystery
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
13
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and fantasy
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time…
14
The Eternal Daughter (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
15
Mr. K (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious…
16
Inseparable (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery
A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.
17
Pi (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also mystery and drama
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
18
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and mystery
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary…
19
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
20
Premonition (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still…