Movies like The Bygone (2019)
The best movies like The Bygone (2019) are Ride (2024), Blood and Money (2020) and Hell or High Water (2016). If The Bygone hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWind River (2017)7.4/10 from 6,066 votes
- NewestDesert Dawn (2025)Released 2025
Ride (2024)
Desperate to raise money for his daughter’s cancer treatment, a retired bull rider teams up with his estranged son and resorts to robbery to secure payment before time runs out. But after the heist goes awry, keeping the money—and their freedom—requires the duo to outwit a dogged pair of local law enforcement officers, including a justice-minded sheriff who soon suspects that the key to her case may lie uncomfortably close to home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Blood and Money (2020)
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell or High Water (2016)
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Yellow Lines (2021)
A former Smokejumper has to face his scorched past when called to ride his motorcycle a thousand miles across Montana with his estranged teenage daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Anchorage (2023)
Two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of stolen opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash-in big in the Land of Gold. A split-second act of violence somewhere in the California desert derails their trip and sets them on a crash course with tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Blue Ridge (2020)
A murder in a sleepy town at the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains shocks the community and refuels a longtime feud between two families. It’s up to the new sheriff, Justin Wise, to solve the case before the town takes the law into its own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Wind River (2017)
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mule (2018)
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwamp Lion (2021)
A father in a Texas border town starts trafficking drugs to pay for his son's cancer treatment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Cold Pursuit (2019)
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWild Horses (2015)
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott’s estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy’s death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRed Stone (2021)
With one bullet, Motley’s life spirals out of control as he’s forced to go on the run from the ruthless crime lord, Jed Haywood. The brother of Haywood's best friend Boons recently died in a terrible car accident and today is the funeral. He has 10 hours to bring Motley in and get to the cemetery. Over the course of a day, Motley and Boon play a game of cat and mouse as their fate brings them together for a climatic showdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Wild Game (2021)
When a cash-strapped rancher takes an offer to help a movie star poach elk it seems like easy money, until a fatal run-in with the local authorities triggers a series of events that pits man against man in a bloody showdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
End of the Rope (2023)
When a sociopathic hired hand murders an entire family, the town of Schafer, North Dakota, rises up to take justice into their own hands. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case of 1931.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
To Leslie (2022)
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Devil All the Time (2020)
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Stop in Yuma County (2024)
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDesert Dawn (2025)
A newly appointed small-town sheriff and his begrudging deputy get tangled up in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise Highway (2022)
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath in Texas (2022)
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a liver transplant and she is all out of legal options.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOut of the Furnace (2013)
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCop Car (2015)
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRunning with the Devil (2019)
A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLand of Gold (2023)
When truck driver Kiran hears pounding on a shipping container and finds a young Mexican-American girl inside, his already tumultuous life takes a drastic turn as he seeks to reunite her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Winged Creatures (2009)
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Parts You Lose (2019)
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLimbo (2023)
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Outsiders (1983)
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNo One Would Tell (1996)
Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats escalate into violence when Bobby thinks Stacy has stepped out of line. Soon she is walking on egg shells and living in fear. Having seen the tell-tale bruises, Stacy's best friend convinces her to break things off with Bobby-but in a moment of weakness, Stacy goes to meet him. It will be the last time she is seen alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Bygone?
The closest matches to The Bygone are Ride (2024), Blood and Money (2020) and Hell or High Water (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Bygone?
People who watched The Bygone most often go on to Ride (2024), Blood and Money (2020) and Hell or High Water (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Bygone?
Wind River (2017), rated 7.4/10 by 6,066 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Bygone?
Desert Dawn (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Bygone?
Yes: Ride (2024), Blood and Money (2020) and Hell or High Water (2016).
How are movies similar to The Bygone chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Bygone, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.