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10 Best Movies Like Thunder Road

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

#1
A Day in the Life of a Farmed Animal

A Day in the Life of a Farmed Animal

2023★ 10.0

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

A collective project empowering people to speak up for the stories of farmed animals, with footage from 10+ countries, to raise awareness about the unnecessary suffering those anim...

#2
The Idol

The Idol

1952★ 6.5

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

An actor argues with his wife and she decides to leave. The day after learning of the mysterious death of his wife in Viña del Mar, he hires a detective to find the murderer....

#3
Wise Blood

Wise Blood

1979★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thunder Road for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his o...

#4
Penda's Fen

Penda's Fen

1974★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thunder Road for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with...

#5
A New Leaf

A New Leaf

1971★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thunder Road for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell....

#6
Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thunder Road for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her d...