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10 Best Movies Like Rumba

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

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#1
Daaaaaalí!

Daaaaaalí!

2024★ 6.1

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

A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be....

#2
The Big Picture

The Big Picture

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rumba for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he fi...

#3
King of California

King of California

2007★ 6.4

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

Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, s...

#4
The Lion Has Seven Heads

The Lion Has Seven Heads

1971★ 5.9

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

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African...

#5
The Wrestler

The Wrestler

2008★ 7.5

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

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy ha...

#6
Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Is the Warmest Color

2013★ 7.1

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

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, ...