10 Best Movies Like Athens
If you loved Athens, 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 Athens 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 Athens 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....

Hands of Stone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Athens for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

Cardboard Boxer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Athens for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

Jawbone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Athens for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the ...

All Together Now
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Athens for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...