Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Breaking Through

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

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#1
Union Pacific

Union Pacific

1939★ 6.7

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

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to ...

#2
Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

2005★ 6.2

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

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die ...

#3
Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar

2022★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking Through for fans of Drama & Western. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max ...

#4
Frontera

Frontera

2014★ 6.5

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

After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learni...

#5
Day of Reckoning

Day of Reckoning

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking Through for fans of Western. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Put-upon lawman John Dorsey is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden to hold outlaw Emily Rusk hostage. A ...

#6
True Grit

True Grit

1969★ 7.3

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

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because h...

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