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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.

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#1
The 33

The 33

2015★ 6.4

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....

#2
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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....

#3
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010★ 7.3

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...

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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 ...

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