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Movies Like The Kidnapping of Arabella

If you liked The Kidnapping of Arabella (2025), a drama and comedy movie directed by Carolina Cavalli, 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. 1Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!

    Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they…

  2. 2Ana

    Ana (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.

  3. 3Sacramento

    Sacramento (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    When free-spirited Rickey suddenly reappears in father-to-be Glenn’s life, the two former best friends embark on a spontaneous road trip from LA to Sacramento.

  4. 4Half Brothers

    Half Brothers (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to…

  5. 5Unpregnant

    Unpregnant (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy

    After discovering she can’t legally get an abortion in Missouri without her parents’ permission, teenager Veronica convinces her former best friend Bailey to take a road trip to Albuquerque to seek the procedure.

  6. 6My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  7. 7Kodachrome

    Kodachrome (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy

    Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for…

  8. 8Wild Hogs

    Wild Hogs (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico…

  9. 9Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  10. 10Sketch

    Sketch (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…

  11. 11Father Hood

    Father Hood (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them…

  12. 12Wicked Little Letters

    Wicked Little Letters (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's…

  13. 13My One and Only

    My One and Only (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

  14. 14In Your Dreams

    In Your Dreams (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.

  15. 15Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama

    A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

  16. 16Charlie & Boots

    Charlie & Boots (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son, Boots, try to put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many…

  17. 17Ezra

    Ezra (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Stand-up comedian Max Bernal lives with his father Stan while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son's future, Max and Ezra embark on…

  18. 18Luck

    Luck (2022)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

    Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, the unluckiest person in the world must unite with the magical creatures there to turn her luck around.

  19. 19Hooking Up

    Hooking Up (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…

  20. 20Dutch

    Dutch (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school... only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.

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