Movies like The Whale: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Whale (2022) — a drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Whale most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like depression, nurse and missionary. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Starling Girl 2023★ 6.3
Shares: 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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Don't Make Me Go 2022★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Broken 2012★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Wonder 2022★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
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.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Out of the Blue 1981★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Thing with Feathers 2025★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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To the Bone 2017★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Goodbye June 2025★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Stream in India on Netflix
- 9
Angela's Ashes 1999★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Belly of an Architect 1987★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Moonlight 2016★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Crush 1993★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Rachel Getting Married 2008★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Uncle Frank 2020★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Mammal 2016★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye 2021★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Brave the Dark 2025★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 1992★ 6.9
Shares: 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 family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hateship Loveship 2014★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gimme Shelter 2013★ 6.6
Shares: 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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now