Movies Like The Circular Ruins

If you liked The Circular Ruins (2014), a movie directed by Juan Azulay, 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
The Boy (2015)
★ 5.8/10
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
2
Phase IV (1974)
★ 6.3/10
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
3
Stagecoach (1939)
★ 7.6/10
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
4
The Hitcher (2007)
★ 5.9/10
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath…
5
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
★ 7/10
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his…
6
Kalifornia (1993)
★ 6.6/10
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.
7
Jubal (1956)
★ 6.9/10
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of…
8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
★ 7.8/10
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of…
9
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3/10
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
10
Paradise (1982)
★ 6/10
After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the…
11
Black Mirror (2011)
★ 7.8/10
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified…
12
Battle at Big Rock (2019)
★ 6.8/10
A family's camping trip at Big Rock National Park becomes a terrifying fight for survival.
13
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
★ 6.5/10
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from…
14
The Forever Purge (2021)
★ 6.8/10
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their…
15
June and John (2025)
★ 6.1/10
John leads an ordinary life with a monotonous routine. One day John runs into a woman on the subway who is as beautiful as she is mysterious named June. His encounter with her finally leads him to have a goal in his…
16
Hombre (1967)
★ 7.1/10
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
17
His Kind of Woman (1951)
★ 6.8/10
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported…
18
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
★ 6.8/10
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
19
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
★ 6.5/10
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the…
20
Series 7 (2001)
★ 6.4/10
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.