10 Best Movies Like Pike River
If you loved Pike River, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The 33
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days....

A Dry White Season
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

Iron Jawed Angels
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

Starving in Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pike River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...