15 Movies Like Current

Loved Current? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Satantango
#1

Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

Return Ticket
#2

Return Ticket

Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Son of Saul
#3

Son of Saul

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

Dealer
#4

Dealer

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

Barron's Cove
#5

Barron's Cove

When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

God's Pocket
#6

God's Pocket

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Feels Like Home
#7

Feels Like Home

Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

The Organization
#8

The Organization

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Moscow Square
#9

Moscow Square

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

Georgetown
#10

Georgetown

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Cardboard Boxer
#11

Cardboard Boxer

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Bad Poems
#12

Bad Poems

33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Current.

Hellion
#13

Hellion

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Run
#14

Run

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.

Above the Rim
#15

Above the Rim

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Current.