Movies like On the Edge (2020)
The best movies like On the Edge (2020) are El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), I, Daniel Blake (2016) and The Alabama Solution (2025). If On the Edge hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
On the Edge
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- Highest ratedI, Daniel Blake (2016)7.7/10 from 1,592 votes
- NewestPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)Released 2026
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI, Daniel Blake (2016)
A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humour, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Alabama Solution (2025)
Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinal Destination 2 (2003)
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kingdom (2007)
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas with Holly (2012)
After being dumped at the altar on her wedding day, Maggie Conway moves to the island town of Friday Harbor in Washington State, where she meets Mark Nagle, the local coffee shop owner.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lazarus Project (2008)
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRed Corner (1997)
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnknown (2006)
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRust Creek (2019)
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJailbreak: Love on the Run (2024)
An Alabama corrections officer falls in love with a man awaiting trial for murder and risks it all to help him escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lookout (2007)
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter.Life (2009)
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiver of Grass (1995)
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDesperate Measures (1998)
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Truth About Emanuel (2013)
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Spy in Black (1939)
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like On the Edge?
The closest matches to On the Edge are El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), I, Daniel Blake (2016) and The Alabama Solution (2025). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after On the Edge?
Start with El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), the closest match to On the Edge.
What is the highest-rated movie like On the Edge?
I, Daniel Blake (2016), rated 7.7/10 by 1,592 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like On the Edge?
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like On the Edge?
Yes: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), I, Daniel Blake (2016) and The Alabama Solution (2025).
How are movies similar to On the Edge chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside On the Edge, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.