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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
Tell Me What You Want

Tell Me What You Want

2024★ 6.2

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

After his father's death, Eric Zimmerman travels to Spain to oversee his company's branches. In Madrid, he falls for Judith and engage in an intense, erotic relationship full of ex...

#2
Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

2025★ 6.1

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

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic...

#3
Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022★ 7.2

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

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to f...

#4
The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure

1972★ 7.1

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

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape....

#5
Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces

2009★ 7.2

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

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing hi...

#6
Sound of the Sea

Sound of the Sea

2001★ 5.9

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

A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but choo...

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