If You Liked The Impossible, Watch These Next
Finished The Impossible (2012) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Impossible, most of them are drama, thriller, history.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Thirteen Lives(2022)
7.8DramaThrillerHistoryAlso drama and thriller
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers…
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2.The End We Start From(2023)
5.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
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3.13 Minutes(2021)
5.8ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved…
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4.On Fire(2023)
6.2DramaThrillerActionAlso drama and thriller
Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have any hope of surviving the rapid forces of mother nature.
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5.The Perfect Storm(2000)
6.5DramaAdventureActionAlso drama and thriller
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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6.Last Breath(2025)
6.9ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
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8.Gray Lady Down(1978)
6.5ThrillerDramaActionAlso thriller and drama
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
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9.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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 the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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10.San Andreas(2015)
6.3ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
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11.Dark Waters(2019)
7.5DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
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12.Brokedown Palace(1999)
6.4DramaThrillerMysteryAlso drama and thriller
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to…
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13.Everest(2015)
6.8AdventureDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the…
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14.6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain(2017)
5.8ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
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15.Stillwater(2021)
6.6DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as…
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17.September 5(2024)
7.0ThrillerDramaHistoryAlso thriller and drama
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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18.Wake of the Red Witch(1948)
5.8AdventureDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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19.Lord of the Flies(1963)
6.7DramaAdventureThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.
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20.Eye of the Needle(1981)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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