10 Best Movies Like The Ascent
If you loved The Ascent, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....
El Chicano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....
My Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...
Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...
Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascent for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....