Movies like Car Camping (2023)
The best movies like Car Camping (2023) are Rituals (1977), Just Before Dawn (1981) and Battle at Big Rock (2019). If Car Camping hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrain to Busan (2016)7.8/10 from 8,922 votes
- NewestPassenger (2026)Released 2026
- In KoreanTrain to Busan (2016)Also in Korean
Rituals (1977)
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust Before Dawn (1981)
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattle at Big Rock (2019)
A family's camping trip at Big Rock National Park becomes a terrifying fight for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPassenger (2026)
After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger that won't stop until it claims them both turns their van life adventure into a nightmare.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOld Joy (2006)
Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKalifornia (1993)
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrain to Busan (2016)
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSleepaway Camp (1983)
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this#Alive (2020)
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Week (2008)
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA New Leaf (1971)
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Cab to Darwin (2015)
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBobby Deerfield (1977)
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Attorney (2013)
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInto the Wild (2007)
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMickey's Trailer (1938)
Goofy's in the driver's seat, Mickey's in the kitchen, and Donald's in bed in Mickey's high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot, it takes them onto a dangerous closed mountain road. When Goofy realizes this, he accidentally unhooks the trailer, sending it on a perilous route. They come very close to disaster several times, while the oblivious Goofy drives on and hooks back up to them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThem Thar Hills (1934)
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Car Camping?
The closest matches to Car Camping are Rituals (1977), Just Before Dawn (1981) and Battle at Big Rock (2019). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Car Camping?
Start with Rituals (1977), the closest match to Car Camping.
What is the highest-rated movie like Car Camping?
Train to Busan (2016), rated 7.8/10 by 8,922 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Car Camping?
Passenger (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Car Camping?
Yes: Train to Busan (2016), #Alive (2020) and The Attorney (2013).
How are movies similar to Car Camping chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Car Camping, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.