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10 Best Movies Like Rescued

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rescued 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....

#2
Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

2008★ 6.8

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

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it....

#3
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#4
Same Kind of Different as Me

Same Kind of Different as Me

2017★ 6.8

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

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on t...

#5
A Dog's Way Home

A Dog's Way Home

2019★ 7.4

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

The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human....

#6
Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007★ 7.4

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

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers f...

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