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10 Best Movies Like Downriver

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

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#1
In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

1967★ 7.5

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

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of thei...

#2
Soldier's Girl

Soldier's Girl

2003★ 7.0

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

This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a tr...

#3
The Opposite of Sex

The Opposite of Sex

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downriver for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives....

#4
Akron

Akron

2015★ 7.2

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

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they e...

#5
Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2013★ 7.0

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

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs....

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Querelle

Querelle

1982★ 6.6

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

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discove...

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