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10 Best Movies Like One for the Road

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

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#1
The Fire Within

The Fire Within

1963★ 7.6

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

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living....

#2
When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994★ 6.6

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

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox,...

#3
Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

1963★ 7.5

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

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together....

#4
28 Days

28 Days

2000★ 6.2

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

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extrem...

#5
Smashed

Smashed

2012★ 6.5

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

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial...

#6
Being Charlie

Being Charlie

2016★ 6.2

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

Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced ...

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