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

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

Frontera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learni...

Cardboard Boxer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río 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....

Hands of Stone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río 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....

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Río for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...