Movies Like Welcome to the Rileys
If you liked Welcome to the Rileys (2010), a drama movie directed by Jake Scott, 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.
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The Poker House (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAgnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaYoung Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels…
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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaBased on a true story. 15-year-old Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours. With her survival instincts kicking in, she plots a daring escape from the serial killer and leads police to his…
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Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn 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…
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Kids (1995)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
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Exotica (1994)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he…
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaInterweaving stories of four different women involved in the sex industry offers a glimpse into the dark underbelly of Los Angeles and the taboo lifestyle of a sex worker. A teen runaway, single mother and two career…
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Alpha Dog (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaJohnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things…
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Klute (1971)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Trafficked (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn 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…
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
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American Honey (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances…
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The Nines (2007)
★ 6/10Also dramaA troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
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Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
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Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
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A Girl Like Her (2015)
★ 7/10Also dramaSophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and…