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

Imperial Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

Shara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

Family Romance, LLC
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...