Top 20 movies like The Sand Runner
Top 20 Movies like The Sand Runner
- 1. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- 2. A Killing Affair
- 3. The Common Man
- 4. Where is my DVD?
- 5. John Wynn's Mirror Mirror
- 6. The Girl in the Backseat
- 7. Alice in Terrorland
- 8. Stolen
- 9. Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger
- 10. Kids
- 11. Ofélia na Praia
- 12. Brick
- 13. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- 14. Asphalt Tango
- 15. Waltz with Bashir
- 16. The Rapture
- 17. Swept from the Sea
- 18. Live and Become
- 19. Paranoid Park
- 20. The Fortunate Ones
1. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
It has an average vote of 7.42 on TMDB.
2. A Killing Affair
Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow living in West Virginia takes in the man whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him. Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. The Common Man (Dupont Lajoie)
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family and the Colin family . This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Where is my DVD? (왜 독립영화 감독들은 DVD를 주지 않는가?)
Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect his dvds meeting the directors who he used to work with, and he faces the fact that he couldn't have known....
It has an average vote of 9.5 on TMDB.
5. John Wynn's Mirror Mirror
A psychological thriller about a mirror that has no respect of person; no matter what your social economic status. Dr. Roosevelt Jones is a successful Black pastor searching for the truth while living a double life with a Caucasian stripper. From the church boardroom and his large congregation, Jones' trail takes him to a gentleman's club where he is infatuated with another lifestyle. In spite of his obsession with a stripper, Jones always returns home to his wife Robin. The Jones' have been married for 20 years; however, they only have a business relationship.
6. The Girl in the Backseat
An involuntary road trip through the vast and mysterious landscape of a worldwide human trafficking ring.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
7. Alice in Terrorland
A recently bereaved teenage girl goes to live with her aunt in a secluded woodland house, unaware that sinister forces lurk within.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Stolen (Stöld)
A young woman struggles to defend her Sámi heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
9. Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger)
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
10. Kids
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
It has an average vote of 6.869 on TMDB.
11. Ofélia na Praia (Ofélia na Praia)
(Ofélia na Praia)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Brick
After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.
It has an average vote of 6.812 on TMDB.
13. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
It has an average vote of 6.497 on TMDB.
14. Asphalt Tango (Asfalt Tango)
A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
15. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
It has an average vote of 7.702 on TMDB.
16. The Rapture
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
17. Swept from the Sea
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
It has an average vote of 6.47 on TMDB.
18. Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens)
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
It has an average vote of 7.48 on TMDB.
19. Paranoid Park
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
It has an average vote of 6.537 on TMDB.
20. The Fortunate Ones (O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas)
Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal's recent past.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.