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Movies Like The Rock in the Sea

If you liked The Rock in the Sea, a drama and mystery movie directed by Niall Duffy, 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. 1Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

  2. 2The Secret of Roan Inish

    The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human…

  3. 3Rose of Nevada

    Rose of Nevada (2026)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to…

  4. 4Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe (1997)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe…

  5. 5Cast Away

    Cast Away (2000)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…

  6. 6The Wonder

    The Wonder (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

  7. 7Return to the Blue Lagoon

    Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

  8. 8The 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…

  9. 9The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse (2019)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

  10. 10God's Creatures

    God's Creatures (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.

  11. 11Nothing Personal

    Nothing Personal (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring…

  12. 12Northfork

    Northfork (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also 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…

  13. 13Valhalla Rising

    Valhalla Rising (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are…

  14. 14Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…

  15. 15End of Sentence

    End of Sentence (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see…

  16. 16Jimmy's Hall

    Jimmy's Hall (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to…

  17. 17Parallel

    Parallel (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her…

  18. 18Requiem 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.

  19. 19The Outrun

    The Outrun (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and…

  20. 20The Ballad of Jack and Rose

    The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with…

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