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10 Best Movies Like Dark River

If you loved Dark River, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Florida Project

The Florida Project

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults aro...

#2
The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will le...

#3
La cabalgata del circo

La cabalgata del circo

1945★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs....

#4
Julieta

Julieta

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Fellini's Casanova

Fellini's Casanova

1976★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of ecce...