Movies like Wheels

If you like "Wheels" you are looking for touching, semi serious and psychological movies about / with junkie, paraplegic, friendship, disability, introspection, cause and meaning and self discovery themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Wheels (2014)
 7.5
 7K
Wheels (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Style: touching, semi serious, psychological, sentimental, bleak, captivating, sad, mindfuck, realistic, independent film
Plot: junkie, paraplegic, friendship, disability, introspection, cause and meaning, self discovery, suicide, life, loneliness, society, life philosophy, bittersweet, character study, bondage, friends, addiction, misfit, life is a bitch, drug abuse, sex, suicidal, marijuana, prostitution, cocaine ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Wheels

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about society, friendship, life is a bitch, friends, self discovery, drug and addiction mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Wheels: Trainspotting (1996), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Hide Away (2011), Choking Man (2006), Caroline and Jackie (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.7
 1K
Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
 599
Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
suicide movies
5264
life movies
3005
Caroline and Jackie (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: addiction, introspection, haunted by the past, friendship, drug abuse, life is a bitch, coming of age, self discovery, sister sister conflict, eating disorder, friends, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 39K
Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 6K
Passion Fish (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Plot: disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, mental health, feminist, psychiatry, psychopath, feminism, black, suburbs, ship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
loneliness movies
5242
bleak movies
7400
captivating movies
34092
 6.1
 586
Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.1
 736
The Lie (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.
Style: realistic, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: introspection, couples, boss and employee, couple relations, parents and children, profanity, family relations, power relations, lifestyle, coming of age, unfulfillment, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, friendship, amusement park, gay interest, best friend, buddies, self discovery, social misfits, misfit, life is a bitch, betrayal, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.0
 303
Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 564
Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Return to Ithaca (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: homecoming, introspection, friendship, friends, society, novelist, exile, reunion
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.3
 519
Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 5K
Shelter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, depressing, rough ...
Plot: homelessness, emaciation, homeless, black man white woman sex, black man white woman relationship, female nudity, junkie, drug, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, sexual favor, couples ...
Place: manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
sad movies
sad
2538
society movies
12700
 6.4
 1K
Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, age difference, art teacher, bittersweet, performer's life, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, future, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 10K
Hurlyburly (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Style: talky, dark comedy, cynical, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot: hollywood, addiction, drug abuse, drug, insanity, marijuana, showbiz, buddies, friendship, love triangle, filmmaking, destiny ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 399
Bones (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, friendship, coming of age, drug use, manslaughter, crime and punishment, society, friends, chaos and mayhem, bong ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
California Solo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, estrangement, life is a bitch, society, age difference, drug, musician, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
bondage movies
943
mindfuck movies
1064
friends movies
11694
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style: intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, redemption, addiction, writers, nightlife, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, supportive spouse, downfall, alcohol abuse, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Toy Soldiers (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, addiction, custody, society, bittersweet, homosexual ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.2
 702
X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rehabilitation, support group, recovery, family problems, friendship, human spirit, self discovery, hopes, drug abuse, coping, against the odds ...
Time: 1930s, year 1929, 1920s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.9
 2K
Ballast (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: small town, single parent, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, danger, suicide, juvenile delinquent, robbery, society, poverty, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
You Wont Miss Me (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Style: mumblecore, psychological, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, social misfits, unfulfillment, friendship, society, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 6K
Goodbye Solo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Style: touching, uplifting, independent film, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: suicidal, friendship, depression, immigrant, taxi driver, loneliness, mentor, character study, elderly, suicide, society, regret ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie