Movies Like Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
If you liked Le Grand Ruban (Truck) (1991), a movie directed by Philippe Roussel, 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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They Drive by Night (1940)
★ 6.9/10Joe 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…
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Tommy Boy (1995)
★ 6.8/10To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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Over the Top (1987)
★ 6.5/10Lincoln 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…
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
★ 7.9/10A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Nebraska (2013)
★ 7.4/10An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
★ 6.2/10Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister…
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Joe's College Road Trip (2026)
★ 6.1/10To teach his sheltered grandson about the real world, Madea's foul-mouthed brother Joe takes the college-bound teen on a raucous cross-country road trip.
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I Love My Dad (2022)
★ 5.9/10A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
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Hi-Jack Highway (1955)
★ 6.6/10A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow…
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Secondhand Lions (2003)
★ 7.2/10The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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Trees Lounge (1996)
★ 6.9/10Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and…
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Gunman's Walk (1958)
★ 6.7/10A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
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Clerks (1994)
★ 7.4/10Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and…
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Playdate (2025)
★ 6.2/10When out-of-work accountant Brian joins stay-at-home dad Jeff for a playdate with their sons, he expects a laid-back afternoon. Instead, they're chased by mercenaries, and Brian—totally unprepared—must survive one…
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Hell Drivers (1957)
★ 6.7/10An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company owner who encourages competion amongst his drivers.
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My One and Only (2009)
★ 6.6/10A 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.
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Crash Test Aglae (2017)
★ 6.2/10Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in…
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180° South (2010)
★ 7.3/10The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.
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Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
★ 6.4/10Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
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Weekend (1967)
★ 6.9/10A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own…