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.

A Driver for Vera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

Around the Bend
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years ...

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 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....

Undertow
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that ...

Not Easily Broken
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

Head Full of Honey
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him....