Movies Like Cradle on Wheels

If you liked Cradle on Wheels (1994), a movie directed by Mi Jiashan, 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
All or Nothing (2002)
★ 7.1/10
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
2
Little Man (2006)
★ 5.9/10
After leaving prison, dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy in stealing an expensive huge diamond from a jewelry store for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the…
3
Goodbye Solo (2009)
★ 6.9/10
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
4
Taxi Driver (1976)
★ 8.1/10
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
5
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
★ 6/10
Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious…
6
Daddio (2024)
★ 6.3/10
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK airport engages in a conversation with the driver about the important relationships in their lives.
7
99 River Street (1953)
★ 6.8/10
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
8
3 Men and a Baby (1987)
★ 6.2/10
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
9
Look Who's Talking (1989)
★ 6.3/10
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through…
10
Vivarium (2019)
★ 6.1/10
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and…
11
Unknown (2011)
★ 6.7/10
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
12
Faster (2010)
★ 6.4/10
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
13
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
★ 6.2/10
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly…
14
Fences (2016)
★ 6.9/10
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
15
Seven Pounds (2008)
★ 7.6/10
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
16
Airplane! (1980)
★ 7.3/10
An ex-fighter pilot is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
17
Nowhere Special (2020)
★ 7.3/10
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he…
18
Collateral (2004)
★ 7.3/10
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
19
Holidate (2020)
★ 7/10
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
20
Crazy Heart (2009)
★ 6.9/10
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.