Movies like Return
The best movies like Return (2011) are Hateship Loveship (2014), My Louisiana Sky (2001) and Things Never Said (2013). If Return hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHesher (2010)6.8/10 from 782 votes
- NewestEleanor the Great (2025)Released 2025
Hateship Loveship (2014)
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Louisiana Sky (2001)
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Things Never Said (2013)
An aspiring poet in a troubled marriage sparks with a new man who helps her find her artistic voice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
What Alice Found (2003)
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Last Stand (2006)
The Last Stand, a drama that chronicles the life of four very different people attempting success as performers in Los Angeles until life becomes too much to handle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hick (2012)
A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGirl Lost (2018)
Girl Lost tackles the issue of underage prostitution as told through the eyes of a wayward teen. Groomed by her own mother to work in the underbelly of Los Angeles, the young girl struggles to survive in this dark world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisYelling To The Sky (2011)
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
White Rabbit (2013)
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpring Forward (2000)
Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a parks employee in a small Connecticut town. His co-worker, Murph, a generation older than Paul, is dealing with his own issues, chiefly the the impending death of his very ill gay son. After the men have a run-in with local snob Frederickson, Murph's age and experience starts to temper Paul's fiery nature, as the younger man begins to embrace his new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
As I Lay Dying (2013)
Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNot Like Everyone Else (2006)
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Stranger to Love (1996)
In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sherrybaby (2006)
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife on Liberty Street (2004)
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Book 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
Austin Found (2017)
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old daughter for a month.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Stay (2013)
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Strange Voices (1987)
A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Garden Party (2008)
Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Son (2008)
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Video Girl (2011)
Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she soon learns the hard way that life in front of the camera is not as glamorous as it seems.
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 thisDisappearing Acts (2000)
A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMobile Homes (2017)
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHesher (2010)
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Believe in Unicorns (2015)
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe River (1984)
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWon't Back Down (2012)
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Return?
The closest matches to Return are Hateship Loveship (2014), My Louisiana Sky (2001) and Things Never Said (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Return?
People who watched Return most often go on to Hateship Loveship (2014), My Louisiana Sky (2001) and Things Never Said (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Return?
Hesher (2010), rated 6.8/10 by 782 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Return?
Eleanor the Great (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Return?
Yes: Hateship Loveship (2014), My Louisiana Sky (2001) and Things Never Said (2013).
How are movies similar to Return chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Return, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.