Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Mud

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

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#1
Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn

1975★ 6.5

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

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hun...

#2
Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

1990★ 7.8

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

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, a...

#3
Cassandra's Dream

Cassandra's Dream

2007★ 6.3

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

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies....

#4
The River Wild

The River Wild

1994★ 6.5

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

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up wit...

#5
The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

1958★ 7.1

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

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other....

#6
Take Me to the River

Take Me to the River

2015★ 6.4

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

A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret....

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