20 movies like Broken Highway, ordered by similarity : Bodies, Rest & Motion(1993), Giant Little Ones(2018), The Deer Hunter(1978), The Member of the Wedding(1952), Red(1994), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968), Hera Pheri(1975), Mauvaises fréquentations(1999), What Richard Did(2012), I, Tonya(2017), Jarhead(2005), The Boys in the Band(1970) ...
Drama
Australia
1993
97 Minutes
Aden Young David Field Bill Hunter Claudia Karvan Norman Kaye Dennis Miller Kris McQuade William McInnes Stephen Davis Peter Settle
sailor girl landowner friend prostitute thug somber dreamy brooding tense queensland australia small town port junkyard dark secrets journey shattered dreams promises outsider
Characters adrift in an isolated landscape collide with the past and each other as they unravel the secrets of a dead man's dreams. A moody meditation on anti-heroism, the film pays tribute to the black and white style of cinema noir.
Drama
USA
1993
93 Minutes
Phoebe Cates Bridget Fonda Tim Roth Eric Stoltz Alicia Witt Rich Wheeler Scott Johnson
salesman painter best friend girlfriend ex-girlfriend boyfriend quirky witty endearing arizona small town house desert small-town life self-discovery moving friendship love abandonment adventure
Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of the future." "I read ... See full summary »
Drama
Canada
2018
94 Minutes
Josh Wiggins Darren Mann Taylor Hickson Maria Bello Kyle MacLachlan Niamh Wilson Hailey Kittle Peter Outerbridge Stephanie Moore Kiana Madeira Olivia Scriven
best friend girlfriend mother father partygoer tense emotional touching intense high school party swimming pool house classroom convenience store friendship love growing up teen romance teen culture
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Drama
UK
1952
91 Minutes
Ethel Waters Julie Harris Brandon de Wilde Arthur Franz Nancy Gates William Hansen James Edwards Harry Bolden Dickie Moore Danny Mummert June Hedin
girl cousin maid brother girlfriend father dark amusing small town family home kitchen wedding the south alienation puberty fantasy unusual friendship coming of age transformation discovery
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Drama
1994
99 Minutes
Irène Jacob Jean-Louis Trintignant Frédérique Feder Jean-Pierre Lorit Juliette Binoche Julie Delpy Benoît Régent Zbigniew Zamachowski
model judge boyfriend neighbor girlfriend dreamy emotional playful geneva english channel father/daughter relationship french resistance fate fraternity redemption discovery rescue transformation 1990s
Tapped phone lines connect a Swiss law student, a model (Irène Jacob) and an ex-judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops.
Drama
1968
124 Minutes
Alan Arkin Sondra Locke Stacy Keach Laurinda Barrett Chuck McCann Biff McGuire Percy Rodrigues Cicely Tyson Jackie Marlowe Johnny Popwell Wayne Smith
disabled person friend alcoholic doctor daughter drunk brooding engaging somber small town house doctor's office bedroom american south small-town life illness alcoholism friendship relationships growing up
John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
young man young woman friend best friend father girlfriend amusing gripping thrilling intense emotional moving india city house bungalow restaurant street friendship best friends
Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Drama
France
1999
98 Minutes
Maud Forget Lou Doillon Micheline Presle Ariane Ascaride Robinson Stévenin Maxime Mansion Delphine Rich François Berléand Cyril Cagnat Dan Martin
high-school student friend boyfriend girlfriend teen girl teen boy emotional dark melodramatic hedonistic school party france nightclub sexual awakening friendship relationships first love loss of innocence prostitution
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Drama
Ireland
2012
87 Minutes
Jack Reynor Roisin Murphy Sam Keeley Gavin Drea Fionn Walton Lars Mikkelsen Lorraine Pilkington Padraic Delaney Patrick Gibson Liana O'Cleirigh Rachel Gleeson
teen boy teen girl athlete student family bleak brooding brutal chilling dark dense intense raw uneasy ireland dublin coming of age life lessons fighting teen angst
A promising young man about to start university suddenly throws his life into uncertainty when he accidentally commits a serious crime.
Biography, Comedy, Drama
USA|UK|Australia|Canada
2017
121 Minutes
Margot Robbie Sebastian Stan Allison Janney Julianne Nicholson Paul Walter Hauser Bobby Cannavale Mckenna Grace Caitlin Carver Bojana Novakovic
figure skater ex-husband competitor friend mother athlete amusing bleak brash intense gutsy unrestrained portland, ore. france norway ice-skating rink press conference police station figure skating ice skating
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
War, Drama
USA|UK|Germany
2005
123 Minutes
Jake Gyllenhaal Peter Sarsgaard Jamie Foxx Chris Cooper Lucas Black Brian Geraghty Jacob Vargas Laz Alonso Evan Jones Iván Fenyö Dennis Haysbert
marine sniper friend enemy spotter reporter dark tense boot camp desert tent saudi arabia gulf war survival friendship infidelity breakup breakdown quest discovery
A psychological study of a soldier's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1970
120 Minutes
Cliff Gorman Leonard Frey Peter White Kenneth Nelson Frederick Combs Reuben Greene Robert La Tourneaux Laurence Luckinbill Keith Prentice
host gay man guest old friend closeted homosexual father dark campy tense touching apartment bedroom party bathroom living room homosexuality sexual identity friendship celebration homophobia
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
Drama
UK
2016
83 Minutes
Suzanna Hamilton Darren Kent Pixie Le Knot Will Rastall Eileen Pollock Jason Wright Steven Brandon Shana Swash Edward Wilkinson Rachael Cox
down syndrome sufferer friend young girl outsider young boy mother charming emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring moving english countryside nursing home home town field barn loss love
Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
Drama
USA
1996
88 Minutes
Lili Taylor Anna Grace Bruklin Harris Aunjanue Ellis Ramya Pratt Guillermo Díaz Ernestine Jackson Stephanie Berry Nathaniel Freeman Asia Minor Michael Imperioli
teen girl rape victim friend ex-boyfriend rapist unwed mother tender gutsy raw emotional new jersey high school baseball field diner classroom suicide troubled youth rape friendship female bonding
A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1940
64 Minutes
Peter Lorre John McGuire Margaret Tallichet Charles Waldron Elisha Cook Jr. Charles Halton Ethel Griffies Cliff Clark Oscar O'Shea Alec Craig Otto Hoffman
reporter girlfriend convict stranger lawyer neighbor eerie tense courtroom crime scene household false accusations investigation guilt murder dreams paranoia mystery quest discovery
An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.
Biography, Drama
UK|Australia|USA
2016
121 Minutes
Dev Patel Rooney Mara David Wenham Nicole Kidman Abhishek Bharate Divian Ladwa Priyanka Bose Deepti Naval Tannishtha Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Sunny Pawar
indian adopted son australian husband wife girlfriend emotional gripping intense calcutta, india train australia airplane house bedroom loss isolation search family reunion
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1991
132 Minutes
Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Amanda Plummer Mercedes Ruehl Michael Jeter Adam Bryant Paul Lombardi David Hyde Pierce
dj homeless person cabaret performer woman girlfriend dark emotional offbeat heartwarming new york city radio station hospital train station holy grail meaning of life redemption values suicide attempt homelessness quest
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
Drama
UK|Canada
2002
97 Minutes
Samantha Morton Kathleen McDermott Raife Patrick Burchell Dan Cadan Carolyn Calder Jim Wilson Dolly Wells Ruby Milton
young woman best friend grandmother publisher boyfriend dreamy dark glasgow, scotland spain desert club cemetery swimming pool suicide drugs journey sex vacation schemes transformation
After her beloved boyfriend's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever.
Drama
UK
2012
91 Minutes
Lenora Crichlow Lily James Noel Clarke Rupert Graves Bradley James Philip Davis Lorraine Burroughs Lashana Lynch Dominique Tipper
girl runner team member coach father physical therapist confident dreamy emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring london united kingdom racetrack locker room council estate family home sports team
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2018
85 Minutes
Matthew Glave Emily Bett Rickards Jana Winternitz Nikki Limo Lily Holleman Jessica Diggins Aschleigh Jensen Pete Gardner Reginald VelJohnson Jacob Wysocki
older man daughter estranged father friend girlfriend tense amusing emotional shocking uneasy california wedding restaurant bar woods love triangle awkward situations love father/daughter relationship secret
A dramedy about a well-intentioned father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the life of his estranged daughter when she invites him to her woodland wedding.