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Movies Like Zesser the movie

If you liked Zesser the movie (2019), a movie directed by Emmerson "Wiz" George, 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. 1Braven

    Braven (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

  2. 2Less Than Zero

    Less Than Zero (1987)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

  3. 3Riding in Cars with Boys

    Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

  4. 4Rebel Without a Cause

    Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a…

  5. 5Adopt a Highway

    Adopt a Highway (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn…

  6. 6True Romance

    True Romance (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

  7. 7Curly Sue

    Curly Sue (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes…

  8. 8If There Be Thorns

    If There Be Thorns (2015)

    ★ 6/10

    Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and…

  9. 9Raising Arizona

    Raising Arizona (1987)

    ★ 7.1/10

    When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

  10. 10Nobody's Fool

    Nobody's Fool (2018)

    ★ 6/10

    After serving five years in prison, wild child Tanya looks to her buttoned-up, by-the-book sister Danica to help her get back on her feet. The feisty ex-con becomes suspicious and concerned when Danica tells her that…

  11. 11Pineapple Express

    Pineapple Express (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

  12. 12Where the Heart Is

    Where the Heart Is (2000)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually…

  13. 13Someone Like You...

    Someone Like You... (2001)

    ★ 6/10

    Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane…

  14. 14Trainspotting

    Trainspotting (1996)

    ★ 8/10

    Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning…

  15. 15The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

    The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative…

  16. 16Resurrection

    Resurrection (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.

  17. 17The Greatest

    The Greatest (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support…

  18. 18Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  19. 19Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  20. 20The Back-Up Plan

    The Back-Up Plan (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe…

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