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10 Best Movies Like Backroads

If you loved Backroads, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#2
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

#3
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#6
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backroads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

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