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Movies Like Unpredictable Nature of the River

If you liked Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996), a drama and adventure movie directed by Bernard Giraudeau, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Bamako

    Bamako (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial…

  2. 2Unconquered

    Unconquered (1947)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and adventure

    England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and…

  3. 3No Chains, No Masters

    No Chains, No Masters (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba…

  4. 4White Material

    White Material (2010)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces…

  5. 5Mountains of the Moon

    Mountains of the Moon (1990)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and drama

    The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.

  6. 6Papillon

    Papillon (1973)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

  7. 7Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  8. 8The Young Karl Marx

    The Young Karl Marx (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class…

  9. 9Chouans !

    Chouans ! (1988)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy…

  10. 10The Pagemaster

    The Pagemaster (1994)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure

    Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the…

  11. 11The Murdered House

    The Murdered House (1988)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien…

  12. 12The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese (1978)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure

    A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader…

  13. 13The Current War

    The Current War (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

  14. 14Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

    ★ 7.4/10Also adventure and drama

    Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

  15. 15Northfork

    Northfork (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…

  16. 16Belle

    Belle (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.

  17. 17North West Frontier

    North West Frontier (1959)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure and drama

    In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on…

  18. 18Black Gold

    Black Gold (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10Also adventure and drama

    On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay…

  19. 19Icarus

    Icarus (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure

    On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (aka the Minotaur). When the King asks Icarus’ father, a famous…

  20. 20The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

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