Movies Like Lady

If you liked Lady (2026), a drama movie directed by Olive Nwosu, 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
Goodbye Solo (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
2
Daddio (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK airport engages in a conversation with the driver about the important relationships in their lives.
3
All or Nothing (2002)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
4
Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
5
Working Girls (1987)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
6
Collateral (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
7
The Woman King (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains…
8
Trafficked (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…
9
Rent (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.
10
100 Streets (2016)
★ 6/10Also drama
Three extraordinary stories covering infidelity, adoption, and a drug dealer turned actor intertwine as characters meet in the streets of London.
11
Sebastian (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym…
12
Mean Streets (1973)
★ 7/10Also drama
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…
14
Buddies (1985)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his…
15
Taxi Driver (1976)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
16
Sorry We Missed You (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of modern-day labour exploitation.
17
My Father's Shadow (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey…
18
Saint Jack (1979)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he…
19
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
20
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
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…