10 Best Movies Like Badlands
If you loved Badlands, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Days of Heaven
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a...
Factotum
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere...
Accident
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beau...
He Who Gets Slapped
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being sla...
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are ...
Jubilee
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Badlands for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time....