Movies Like A Day in the Life of the Austin Foot Stomper

If you liked A Day in the Life of the Austin Foot Stomper (2016), a movie directed by Jackson Grabois, 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
Slacker (1990)
★ 6.7/10
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions…
2
Nightmares (1983)
★ 5.9/10
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to…
3
Pacific Heights (1990)
★ 6.3/10
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
4
Phantasm (1979)
★ 6.5/10
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
5
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
★ 7.4/10
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
6
Mile 22 (2018)
★ 6.3/10
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an…
7
The Mechanic (1972)
★ 6.7/10
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and…
8
Angel Town (1990)
★ 6.6/10
A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's…
9
Man with the Gun (1955)
★ 6.1/10
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his…
10
The Gate (1987)
★ 6.1/10
Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a…
11
Split Second (1992)
★ 6/10
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
12
Drive (2011)
★ 7.6/10
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When…
13
Shazam! (2019)
★ 7/10
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
14
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
★ 7.5/10
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to…
15
Osiris (2025)
★ 6.2/10
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
16
Them! (1954)
★ 6.8/10
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their…
17
Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm (2022)
★ 6.4/10
Everyone’s favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens, and everyone’s favorite perverted neighbor, Carl, split up then get back together to fight everyone’s favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone’s favorite tech…
18
The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
★ 6.6/10
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence…
19
Nope (2022)
★ 6.8/10
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
20
Evolution (2001)
★ 6.1/10
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and…