10 Best Movies Like El Río
If you loved El Río, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Cardboard Boxer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

Identifying Features
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Magdalena makes a journey to find her son, who has disappeared on his way to the Mexican border with the United States. Her odyssey takes her to meet Miguel, a man recently deporte...

The Tit and the Moon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him...

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea ro...

Gigi & Nate
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

Our Time
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the be...