Thelma & Louise

20 Movies Like Thelma & Louise (1991) You Need to Watch Next

1991·Ridley ScottiRank82
AdventureCrimeDrama

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the stre

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If you loved Thelma & Louise (1991) by Ridley Scott, here are 20 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Papillon, Stand by Me, Into the Wild. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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