Movies like Thunder Road (2018)
The best movies like Thunder Road (2018) are I Like Movies (2023), The Toll (2021) and Sadie (2018). If Thunder Road hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBrigsby Bear (2017)7.1/10 from 436 votes
- NewestDowntown Owl (2023)Released 2023
I Like Movies (2023)
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Toll (2021)
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSadie (2018)
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Suck It Up (2017)
Ronnie lost her brother. Faye lost her first love. These two best friends set off on a debaucherous road trip to the mountains to get over the death of the man they both loved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Unicorn (2019)
An engaged couple is forced to visit Palm Springs for a weekend to celebrate her parents’ 25th wedding vow renewal and discover the apparent secret to their happy marriage — threesomes. Determined to properly celebrate their own “re-engagement,” they set out on a wild night in search of a threesome of their own but the experience takes an intense turn, exposing deeper relationship problems and threatening their future together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJinn (2018)
Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a Muslim classmate, crossing the thin line between physical desire and piety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Youth in Oregon (2017)
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrigsby Bear (2017)
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe New Romantic (2018)
In order to escape her looming post-graduation fate that includes student debt and zero romantic prospects, Blake Conway becomes a sugar baby. As the aspiring journalist and hopeless romantic documents the adventure, she sets out on a quest to figure out if society is right to judge these women and if her own self worth comes with a price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Land of Steady Habits (2018)
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBetter Living Through Chemistry (2014)
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTyrel (2018)
Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can’t help but feel uneasy in “Whitesville.” The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler’s precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Paddleton (2019)
An unlikely friendship between two neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlow the Man Down (2019)
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrandma (2015)
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrothers' Nest (2018)
With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Party's Just Beginning (2018)
In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOutside In (2018)
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSmall Crimes (2017)
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurn Burn Burn (2016)
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnother Happy Day (2011)
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMaine (2018)
Backpacking alone on the Appalachian trail, a married woman meets a younger hiker and the two strangers become inexplicably drawn to one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Road Hard (2015)
After his movie and television career has run dry, Bruce Madsen (Adam Carolla) is forced to go back on the road playing one dingy comedy club after another, spending endless nights in budget hotel rooms and always flying coach. Amidst trying to revitalize his career, rekindle his love life and put his daughter through college, Bruce knows one thing for sure - he must get off the road. ROAD HARD is the story of that journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Menashe (2017)
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018)
A star of hunting videos strives to bond with his 12-year-old son on a wilderness trip but learns familial connections can't be forced.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Middle Man (2021)
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKatie Says Goodbye (2018)
A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKrystal (2018)
A young man living a sheltered life develops a crush on a stripper and joins her Alcoholics Anonymous group just so he can be in the same room with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDowntown Owl (2023)
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitch, depressed backup quarterback star player-power-horse; and newly appointed high school English teacher Julia – along with those of the town's other residents, are upended by a historic whiteout blizzard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Thunder Road?
The closest matches to Thunder Road are I Like Movies (2023), The Toll (2021) and Sadie (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Thunder Road?
People who watched Thunder Road most often go on to I Like Movies (2023), The Toll (2021) and Sadie (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Thunder Road?
Brigsby Bear (2017), rated 7.1/10 by 436 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Thunder Road?
Downtown Owl (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Thunder Road?
Yes: I Like Movies (2023), The Toll (2021) and Sadie (2018).
How are movies similar to Thunder Road chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Thunder Road, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.