15 Movies Like Rubber Dolphin

Loved Rubber Dolphin? 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.

Kids
#1

Kids

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

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

Mammal
#2

Mammal

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

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

Brothers
#3

Brothers

The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.

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

Yes
#4

Yes

In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem.

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

The Normal Heart
#5

The Normal Heart

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

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

Urban Tale
#6

Urban Tale

A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.

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

What Maisie Knew
#7

What Maisie Knew

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

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

Pink Narcissus
#8

Pink Narcissus

An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.

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

Waltz with Bashir
#9

Waltz with Bashir

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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

Antarctica
#10

Antarctica

Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end up inadvertently dating the same handsome journalist, Ronen.

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

Gift From Above
#11

Gift From Above

A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.

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

Babylon
#12

Babylon

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 with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.

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

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
#13

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

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

A Tale of Love and Darkness
#14

A Tale of Love and Darkness

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

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

Rent
#15

Rent

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.

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