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Movies Like Iron Dan

If you liked Iron Dan, a drama movie directed by Thomas Simon, 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. 1They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  2. 2Over the Top

    Over the Top (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life…

  3. 3Hell Drivers

    Hell Drivers (1957)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company owner who encourages competion amongst his drivers.

  4. 4Paradise Highway

    Paradise Highway (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a…

  5. 5Scarecrow

    Scarecrow (1973)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

  6. 6Born to Be Bad

    Born to Be Bad (1950)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her…

  7. 7Rocky

    Rocky (1976)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a…

  8. 8Nomadland

    Nomadland (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

  9. 9Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  10. 10Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  11. 11Thieves' Highway

    Thieves' Highway (1949)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker…

  12. 12The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  13. 13Fat City

    Fat City (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions.

  14. 14Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  15. 15Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  16. 16Paris, Texas

    Paris, Texas (1984)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

  17. 17The Rain People

    The Rain People (1969)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

  18. 18Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  19. 19Road to Paloma

    Road to Paloma (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…

  20. 20The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

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