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10 Best Movies Like The Risky Road

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

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#2
My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

1979★ 6.2

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

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married....

#3
Somersault

Somersault

2004★ 6.2

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

Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a to...

#4
River of Grass

River of Grass

1995★ 6.2

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

Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder....

#5
I Believe in Unicorns

I Believe in Unicorns

2015★ 6.3

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

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter....

#6
Brand Upon the Brain!

Brand Upon the Brain!

2007★ 6.5

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

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have lon...

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