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10 Best Movies Like Thanks for the Ride

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

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#1
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

2013★ 7.0

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

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness....

#2
Lucky Them

Lucky Them

2013★ 6.0

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

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-st...

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here

Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here

2018★ 6.3

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

Comedian Tig Notaro unleashes her inner prankster in a playful stand-up special packed with funny anecdotes, parenting confessions and more....

#5
To Be Takei

To Be Takei

2014★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thanks for the Ride for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five m...

#6
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

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