15 Movies Like The Rainmaker
Loved The Rainmaker? 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.
#1
The Invite
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#2
Leviticus
Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#3
The Isolate Thief
A young woman struggles to conceal the gold she stole from a group of violent outlaws who have seized control of her remote outpost.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#4
Wicked: For Good
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#5
The Drama
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#6
Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#7
Titanic
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#8
The Gorge
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#9
Forrest Gump
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#10
The Notebook
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.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#11
One Night Only
Two love-starved strangers crash into each other on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#12
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#13
After We Fell
Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#14
Voicemails for Isabelle
A young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.
#15
Fifty Shades of Grey
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Rainmaker.