🏷 Discover The Best River Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Immerse Yourself in the World of Rivers with these Must-Watch Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to embark on a cinematic journey that will take you along the winding paths of rivers, exploring the beauty, power, and mystery that these natural wonders hold. From classic films to modern masterpieces, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows related to rivers that will leave you in awe. So, grab some popcorn, sit back, and let the current carry you away!

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Mack Swain

Tom Murray

Henry Bergman

The Gold Rush (1925)

8.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

Plot: dance, worker, gold, river, thanksgiving, gold rush, love, cabin, ...

Place: alaska

The Notebook (2004)

7.9 12.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Style: romantic

Plot: secret love, soulmates, based on novel or book, love of one's life, fight, poem, river, sadness, ...

Cast

Patton Oswalt

Ian Holm

Lou Romano

Brian Dennehy

Ratatouille (2007)

7.8 18.6K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: G

Story: Remy, a rat, possesses a palate far more refined than that of his fellow comrades. He dreams of becoming a chef, one who creates rather than scavenges. When fate deposits him in the sewers beneath one of Paris’s most famous restaurants, he finds himself ideally placed to fulfill his dream. Forming an unusual alliance with a hapless young kitchen worker, Remy begins a daring culinary double life. As Remy pursues his vision, he must navigate the suspicions of the calculating Head Chef Skinner, the disapproval of Remy’s own colony, and the foreboding presence of renowned food critic Anton Ego, who strikes fear in the hearts of chefs all throughout France.

Style: romantic

Plot: work, sibling relationship, paris, france, expensive restaurant, river, confidence, cooking, ...

Cast

Paulina Gaitau0301n

Edgar Flores

Kristyan Ferrer

Tenoch Huerta Meju00eda

Sin Nombre (2009)

7.6 784 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

Plot: rape, street gang, river, shower, child murder, freight train, illegal immigration, kiss, ...

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Reese Witherspoon

Tye Sheridan

Jacob Lofland

Mud (2013)

7.1 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Plot: sniper, friendship, bounty hunter, snake, mississippi river, river, killing, houseboat, ...

Cast

Zhang Hanyu

Eddie Peng Yu-Yan

Joyce Feng

Wu Xudong

Operation Mekong (2016)

7.0 277 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: Hong Kong, China

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Chinese government launches a daring operation to arrest a violent drug cartel following the discovery of thirteen Chinese crew members' bodies on two ships sailing through the Mekong River.

Plot: boat, river, illegal drugs, incident, mekong

Place: china

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Byun Hee-bong

Park Hae-il

Bae Doona

The Host (2006)

7.0 3.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

Plot: daughter, pollution, monster, river, bravery, sewerage, formaldehyde, snack bar, ...

Cast

Carroll Baker

Lee J. Cobb

Henry Fonda

Carolyn Jones

How the West Was Won (1962)

7.0 500 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 164 min.

Audience: G

Story: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Plot: river, settler, native american, caravan, outlaw, frontier, colonisation, family, ...

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Julie Benz

Matthew Marsden

Graham McTavish

Rambo (2008)

6.7 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.

Plot: snake, fight, missionary, boat, river, pastor, border, mercenary, ...

Place: thailand

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Alex Russell

Thomas Kretschmann

Joel Jackson

Jungle (2017)

6.7 2.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.

Style: tense

Plot: based on novel or book, river, hiking, hallucination, bolivia, forest, amazon rainforest, based on true story, ...

Place: south america

Cast

Charlie Hunnam

Robert Pattinson

Sienna Miller

Tom Holland

The Lost City of Z (2017)

6.4 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Northern Ireland

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Plot: based on novel or book, snake, river, expedition, lost civilisation, tribe, biography, amazon rainforest, ...

Time: world war i, 1920s

Place: south america

Cast

Mohanlal

Madhu

Siddique

Jagathy Sreekumar

Naran (2005)

6.2 25 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 165 min.

Story: Velayudhan, an orphan, is loved by the people in his village, as he keeps it free from unsavoury people and practices. But the local moneylender and politician get jealous and try to get rid of him.

Plot: river, village, landlord

Daylight (1996)

6.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

Plot: new york city, taxi, race against time, hero, helicopter, new jersey, taxi driver, river, ...

Cast

Fumi Nikaido

Ryo Yoshizawa

Aoi Morikawa

Shuhei Uesugi

River's Edge (2018)

6.1 52 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.

Style: erotic

Plot: infidelity, homophobia, river, bullying, unrequited love, dead body, tokyo, japan, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Haley Joel Osment

John Goodman

Mae Whitman

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Connor Funk

The Jungle Book 2 (2003)

5.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 72 min.

Audience: G

Story: Mowgli has been living in the man-village with his little stepbrother Ranjan and his best friend Shanti. But the man-cub still has that jungle rhythm in his heart, and he misses his old buddies Baloo and Bagheera. When Mowgli wanders back to the wild for some swingin' fun, he soon finds the man-eating tiger Shere Khan is lurking in the shadows and planning his revenge.

Plot: tiger, river, village, cartoon, musical, feral child, sequel, jungle, ...

Cast

Rossif Sutherland

Sara Botsford

Ted Atherton

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Douangmany Soliphanh

River (2016)

5.8 72 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: Canada

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.

Plot: river, bangkok, thailand, volunteer, laos, murder, fugitive, doctor, ...

Place: thailand

Cast

Tom Frederic

Janet Montgomery

Louise Cliffe

Jack Gordon

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)

5.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.

Plot: sheriff, river, penitentiary, forest, west virginia, sequel, woods, slasher, ...