Movies like Hesher (2010)
The best movies like Hesher (2010) are The Girl (2012), Angels Crest (2011) and Third Person (2014). If Hesher hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBroken (2012)6.9/10 from 305 votes
- NewestPalm Trees and Power Lines (2023)Released 2023
The Girl (2012)
A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Angels Crest (2011)
The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan, one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThird Person (2014)
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRabbit Hole (2010)
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWithout (2011)
On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other Woman (2010)
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreathe In (2013)
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTanner Hall (2011)
A manipulative childhood acquaintance worms her way into a teenager's circle of friends at an all-girls boarding school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMolly Maxwell (2013)
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she falls for her attractive English teacher, Ben.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBook of Love (2004)
Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Anesthesia (2016)
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTurn the River (2008)
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Down to the Bone (2004)
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFuture Weather (2012)
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Georgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeautiful Boy (2011)
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleepwalking (2008)
When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe High Cost of Living (2011)
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Broken (2012)
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeo (2002)
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Is Anybody There? (2009)
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMedeas (2013)
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNed Rifle (2015)
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeadowland (2015)
In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations, falling deeper into her own fever dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisReturn (2011)
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLondon Boulevard (2010)
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hesher?
The closest matches to Hesher are The Girl (2012), Angels Crest (2011) and Third Person (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hesher?
People who watched Hesher most often go on to The Girl (2012), Angels Crest (2011) and Third Person (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hesher?
Broken (2012), rated 6.9/10 by 305 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hesher?
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hesher?
Yes: The Girl (2012), Angels Crest (2011) and Third Person (2014).
How are movies similar to Hesher chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hesher, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.