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10 Best Movies Like The River

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

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#1
Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine

2010★ 7.0

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

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retr...

#2
Todo por el ascenso

Todo por el ascenso

2019★ 6.2

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

Nestor is extremely superstitious. This year, his team plays the ascent in Mendoza and prepares to travel with Rafa, his friend. But Fabian appears, a mufa. The ascent is in danger...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...