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Movies Like Scotch Tension

If you liked Scotch Tension (2020), a romance and drama movie directed by Grant Brown and Samuel Kasper, 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. 1Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven (1978)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

  2. 2Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  3. 3City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  4. 4The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  5. 5Far from Heaven

    Far from Heaven (2002)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

  6. 6Some Came Running

    Some Came Running (1958)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two…

  7. 7The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

  8. 8My Week with Marilyn

    My Week with Marilyn (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who…

  9. 9Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  10. 10The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  11. 11Song Sung Blue

    Song Sung Blue (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama

    Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

  12. 12Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William…

  13. 13God's Own Country

    God's Own Country (2017)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

  14. 14The Straight Story

    The Straight Story (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in…

  15. 15Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  16. 16Certain Women

    Certain Women (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home…

  17. 17What's Eating Gilbert Grape

    What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who…

  18. 18Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves (1990)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…

  19. 19Float

    Float (2024)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama

    Waverly thought she had her future figured out: she’d start her medical residency in Toronto after a summer visit to her parents in Taipei. When her plans suddenly change, she makes an impulsive detour to a small…

  20. 20The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

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