
10 Best Movies Like Shimanto River
If you loved Shimanto River, 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 Shimanto River 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....

Shara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shimanto River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shimanto River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shimanto River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

A Dry White Season
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shimanto 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....

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shimanto River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....