20 best movies like The Rain People (1969)

List of the best movies like The Rain People (1969): Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, On the Road, Two-Lane Blacktop, Harry and Tonto, Thelma & Louise, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, Detour, Mental, Hick, Just Like a Woman.

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Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountrySpain

Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryFrance, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina
Duration02:20

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:10

Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration02:11

Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:07

Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he's riding with, Charles, unexpectedly dies. Afraid the police wouldn't believe the truth, Al takes the man's identity. In a gas station, he gives a lift to Vera, a woman that knew Charles and blackmails Al with tragic consequences.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia, USA

A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
Duration01:27

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryArgentina, Spain

Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's surprise, Jacinta brings along her five-month-old daughter, Anahí.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, France

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Japan
Duration02:19

Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:28

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryCzech Republic, France, Germany

A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teacher has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other's uncertainties, hopes and longing for love.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA

After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:36

A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
Duration01:48

    A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:31

    Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry. But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:56

    A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:27

    Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station wagon, to go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other, and meet many interesting people.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    All seems normal with Joseph and Joanne. Joanne is pregnant with their first child. Life in their little urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph. He doesn’t seem excited about the baby. Work on his documentary is becoming increasingly untethered. As Joseph struggles to maintain the routines of his domestic life, his mask begins to slip. Late at night, while Joanne thinks he is working, Joseph prowls the streets of Los Angeles, deliberately courting danger. Joanne is growing worried about Joseph’s odd behavior. But not as worried as she should be.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration02:09

    A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration01:53

    After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA, Russia

    The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle while looking after six year old Honey Bunny who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:41

    It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genredrama, musical, family, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.




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