Movies like The Swimmers (2014)
The best movies like The Swimmers (2014) are Alone (2007), Laddaland (2011) and Ghost Lab (2021). If The Swimmers hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDeath Whisperer (2023)7.4/10 from 247 votes
- NewestThe Paradise of Thorns (2024)Released 2024
Alone (2007)
When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLaddaland (2011)
A family moves into a neighborhood where they encounter a series of terrifying paranormal events that lead them to the edge of sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost Lab (2021)
After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath Whisperer (2023)
When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPee Mak (2013)
Mak's friends just want to protect him, but his wife Nak won't let a small thing like her own death get in the way of true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHomestay (2018)
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Shutter (2004)
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPresent Perfect (2017)
Following a painful breakup, Toey decides to heal his broken heart in Higashikawa town where he meets Oat, who is on his bachelor finale trip. From stranger to friends, romance spark off between the two..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
4bia (2008)
Four directors create short films based on unique fears involving a lonely woman, a princess's corpse, a haunted camping trip and a cursed manuscript.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhobia 2 (2009)
An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManta Ray (2019)
Near a coastal village of Thailand, a local fisherman rescues a stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. When the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life—his house, his job and his marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Memento Mori (1999)
The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Promise (2017)
Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComing Soon (2008)
Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInhuman Kiss (2019)
An innocent young woman is the unwitting host to a krasue, a demon who causes havoc in her village as it searches for vengeance at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Maid (2020)
Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid's disappearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Paradise of Thorns (2024)
When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Nang Nak (1999)
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Art of the Devil 2 (2005)
A beautiful teacher is wronged by six of her students. Calling on demons and forces of black magic, she extracts an ultra-gruesome retribution against each of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappy Old Year (2019)
While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHello Stranger (2010)
Two strangers meet in South Korea, each on a vacation. When he misses his tour bus, he asks a woman if he can hang out with her for a few days. They have fun together, but never tell each other their names. So when the trip is over they don't know how to contact each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Girl (2003)
Jeab, a young man working in Bangkok, receives word that his childhood sweetheart, Noi-Naa is to be married. While driving back to his hometown, the memories from his childhood come flooding back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Meat Grinder (2009)
A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWater Boyy (2015)
A group of male swimmer, focusing on two of them, with their daily life. The first meeting wasn't so bad. But next thing he know, his hands was tied and his mouth choked with a cloth only to find his mates circling around him and telling him rumours about his roommate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Heart Attack (2015)
A hard-worker freelancer who falls in love with a doctor. While his life is getting worse every second. He must find the way to release his life to the beyond of everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)
Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Blue Hour (2015)
A bullied loner finds solace in another boy's arms when they meet at a haunted swimming pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeep (2021)
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwallow (2020)
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Swimmers?
The closest matches to The Swimmers are Alone (2007), Laddaland (2011) and Ghost Lab (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Swimmers?
People who watched The Swimmers most often go on to Alone (2007), Laddaland (2011) and Ghost Lab (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Swimmers?
Death Whisperer (2023), rated 7.4/10 by 247 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Swimmers?
The Paradise of Thorns (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Swimmers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Swimmers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.