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

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloonist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

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

The Cut
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloonist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he em...

Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloonist 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...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloonist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

Gigi & Nate
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloonist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....