Movies Like American Romance

If you liked American Romance (2016), a thriller movie directed by Zackary Adler, 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
No One Lives (2013)
★ 6/10Also thriller
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
2
The Crossing Guard (1995)
★ 6/10Also thriller
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
3
Kalifornia (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
4
Frailty (2002)
★ 7/10Also thriller
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
5
Joy Ride (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
6
Mr. Brooks (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
7
The Devil's Candy (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
8
Switchback (1997)
★ 6/10Also thriller
After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murderer is in hiding. Although officially taken off the case because of…
9
Roadgames (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
10
The Hitcher (1986)
★ 7/10Also thriller
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking…
11
Paradise Highway (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
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…
12
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal…
13
The Boy (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
14
Murder by Contract (1958)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
15
A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…
16
Drive (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When…
17
Body Parts (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing…
18
Fractured (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally…
19
Wrong Turn (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by…
20
Enemy (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.