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10 Best Movies Like The Shinano River

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

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#1
Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

2019★ 6.2

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

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shinano River 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...

#3
Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder

1964★ 7.0

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

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#6
Penance

Penance

2013★ 7.3

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

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never...

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