Movies Like The Bus Bench

If you liked The Bus Bench (1986), a movie directed by Robert Loveren, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Man with No Past (2025)
★ 6.5/10
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that…
2
My Mom Jayne (2025)
★ 8/10
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and…
3
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
★ 7.1/10
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
4
Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
5
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
★ 6.5/10
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new…
6
Lucy (2014)
★ 6.5/10
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
7
Hellraiser (2022)
★ 6.2/10
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
8
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
★ 6.4/10
After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.
9
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
★ 7.2/10
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit…
10
Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
11
Cosmic Ray (1962)
★ 6.4/10
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
12
Due Date (2010)
★ 6.4/10
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a…
13
Respect (2021)
★ 6.8/10
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
14
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10
Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…
15
Timecop (1994)
★ 6/10
In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
16
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
★ 7.3/10
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
17
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
★ 8.3/10
For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.
18
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
19
Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…
20
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer (2011)
★ 6.9/10
Agent Coulson stops at a convenience store and deals with a coincidental robbery during his visit.