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Movies Like Girls of the Road

If you liked Girls of the Road (1940), a adventure and crime movie directed by Nick Grindé, 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. 1The Quiller Memorandum

    The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and crime

    After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

  2. 2True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and adventure

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  3. 3The Journey of Natty Gann

    The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure and drama

    America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her…

  4. 4The Hitch-Hiker

    The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no…

  5. 5Hilda and the Mountain King

    Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10Also adventure and drama

    When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.

  6. 6Benji

    Benji (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and adventure

    Two school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped by robbers who are in over their heads, Benji and his scruffy sidekick come to the rescue.

  7. 7Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure

    Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also adventure and drama

    Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from a spider named Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets Cardigan, a lonely lamb, Wilbur immediately makes him his friend.

  8. 8Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

  9. 9House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

  10. 10Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…

  11. 11The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

  12. 12Into the West

    Into the West (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama

    Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

  13. 13Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

    Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and drama

    Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize…

  14. 14Kid Galahad

    Kid Galahad (1962)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and crime

    After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

  15. 15The Black Pirate

    The Black Pirate (1926)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama

    A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated…

  16. 16Emperor of the North

    Emperor of the North (1973)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and drama

    Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

  17. 17Vera Cruz

    Vera Cruz (1954)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama

    After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are…

  18. 18The Twisters

    The Twisters (2024)

    ★ 5.8/10Also adventure and drama

    A deadly patchwork of destructive cyclones is on an apocalyptic path of convergence at a populated Midwest city center. There, the twisters will merge into one mega tornado that threatens to obliterate the cities for…

  19. 19Hell and High Water

    Hell and High Water (1954)

    ★ 6/10Also adventure and drama

    A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously…

  20. 20Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and drama

    An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…

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