If You Liked The Sugarland Express, Watch These Next
Finished The Sugarland Express (1974) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Sugarland Express, most of them are crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Midnight Special(2016)
6.3AdventureDramaScience FictionAlso drama
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
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2.A Perfect World(1993)
7.5DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
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3.John Q(2002)
7.2DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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4.News of the World(2020)
6.9DramaWesternAdventureAlso drama
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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6.Frontera(2014)
6.5WesternDramaAlso drama
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom.…
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8.The Parts You Lose(2019)
6.7DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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9.13 Minutes(2021)
5.8ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved…
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11.Short Term 12(2013)
7.7DramaAlso drama
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
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12.Hud(1963)
7.3DramaWesternAlso drama
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires…
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13.No One Would Tell(1996)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats…
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14.The Outsiders(1983)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
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15.The True Adventures of Wolfboy(2019)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
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16.Winged Creatures(2009)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A…
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18.Kansas City(1996)
6.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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19.Man in the Shadow(1957)
6.7ThrillerDramaWesternAlso drama
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.
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20.Missing(2023)
7.4DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs…
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