Movies Like The Light Between Oceans (2016)

The Light Between Oceans is a 2016 drama, romance film from Derek Cianfrance with a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Cold Skin and A Very Long Engagement.

Drama Romance

Cold Skin

2017

A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

6.3

MagicScore

A Very Long Engagement

2004

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

7.3

MagicScore

Navigating Christmas

2023

Recently divorced Melanie brings her son to a remote island for Christmas, where she connects with a lighthouse owner.

5.9

MagicScore

The Lighthouse

2019

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

7.5

MagicScore

The Light

2004

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.

6.7

MagicScore

Half Light

2006

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

6.0

MagicScore

The Light at the Edge of the World

1971

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

6.0

MagicScore

The Last Day

2004

At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.

4.6

MagicScore

Song of the Sea

2014

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

8.0

MagicScore

#10

The Vanishing

2019

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

5.7

MagicScore

#11

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

1959

An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.

5.4

MagicScore

#12

My Memories of Old Beijing

1983

It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.

7.7

MagicScore

#13

Candy

2006

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

The Power of the Dog

2021

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

The Tracker

2002

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Sweet Country

2018

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

2020

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 emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Raise the Red Lantern

1991

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

7.9

MagicScore

#19

The Child in Time

2018

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

5.8

MagicScore

#20

Serena

2014

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

5.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Light Between Oceans?

The top films similar to The Light Between Oceans by MovieMagicScore are Cold Skin (6.3), A Very Long Engagement (7.3), Navigating Christmas (5.9). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Light Between Oceans worth watching?

The Light Between Oceans holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10 from 1,385 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Light Between Oceans?

The Light Between Oceans (2016) is a drama, romance film directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Light Between Oceans?

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About movies like The Light Between Oceans

This ranked list pairs The Light Between Oceans (2016), a drama and romance film from Derek Cianfrance, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Michael Fassbender take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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