Drifter movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant drifter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, weird and melancholic films and TV shows about / with drifter, vengeance, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, brutality, runaway, violence, redemption and small town plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as drifter: Caught (1996), Young Adam (2003), 3-Iron (2004), The Locusts (1997), Red Dirt (2000), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), The Postman (1997), Black Butterfly (2017), Vagabond (1985), Best F(r)iends: Volume 1 (2017).
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List of drifter movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older woman younger man, unfaithful wife, drifter, cheating wife, adultery, infidelity, erotica, betrayal, older woman younger man relationship, family problems, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, future
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, adultery, sexualized violence, infidelity, boat, naked man, destructive relationship, couple relations, unfaithfulness, sex, sexual content, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 1940s, year 1954, 1950s ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
philosophical, lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, motorcycle, relationships, melancholy, drifter, mission, abusive husband, love triangle, jealousy, existentialism, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia, seoul ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A drifter enters a small town looking for employment. While working at the local cattle ranch, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kitty and becomes involved in a deadly yet erotic love triangle.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
nymphomania, incest, drifter, oedipus complex, dark secret, family secret, love triangle, couple relations, domineering mother, male female relationship, overprotective mother, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 20th century, year 1960, 1950s
Place:
kansas, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Red Dirt offers the story of a young man's search to belong in this sublime expression of love and reconciliation. At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
homosexuality, aunt nephew relationship, social relations, friendship, drifter, family relations, leaving home, mentally unstable, love and romance, misfit, small town, secret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, montana, louisiana, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
infidelity, sex scene, unfaithful wife, illicit love, femme fatale, murder, nudity, tragic romance, female orgasm, adultery, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
california, usa, san diego california, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, inspirational, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopic future, postman, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, post war, survival, drifter, leadership, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1997, 2010s, year 2013 ...
Place:
usa, oregon
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Style:
suspense, exciting, costume drama, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
writers, dating show, drifter, isolation, twists and turns, murder, recluse, kidnapping, dangerous friend, fear, serial killer, alcoholic ...
Time:
2010s
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16K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
homeless, solitude, freeze to death, homelessness, death, drifter, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, feminist, wine ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a drifter befriends a quirky mortician, an unlikely business partnership is formed. Paranoia soon develops, however, and both men are forced to come to terms with the fragility of friendship and loyalty.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological, captivating, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, paranoia, jealousy, relationship problems, betrayal, greed, odd couple, loyalty, friendship, character study, mistrust, buddy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Style:
realistic, tense, harsh, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
boxing, great depression, street fighter, illegal fistfight, streetfighting, drifter, fistfight, boxer, businessman, tough guy, martial arts, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, north america, louisiana, usa ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rat, drifter, stephen king, supernatural, creature, gory, eaten alive, twists and turns, dangerous animal, deadly creature, rescue, uncover truth ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
maine, usa, new england
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While Jane Holman (Mastrantonio) is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud (Swayze), who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, surprise ending, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dog, generosity, drifter, broken leg, magic, family relations, youth, animal, cancer, widow, flashback, hitchhiker ...
Time:
1950s, 1900s, 50s, 20th century
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692K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, drifter, road trip, buddies, attempted rape, on the road, prison, mental breakdown, car wash, telephone call, hitchhiking, character study ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, denver colorado, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, detroit ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression ...
Style:
road movie, sexual, erotic, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
bisexuality, bisexual man, farm, gay, father son relationship, filmmaker, gay slur, drifter, sexuality, single father, screenwriter, gay interest ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Style:
spaghetti western, epic, breathtaking, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, manly, date night, kids ...
Plot:
old west, civil war, treasure hunt, gunfight, greed, american civil war, moral ambiguity, desert, anti hero, shootout, hitman, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966, 20th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
texas, arizona, austin texas, usa, north america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vengeance rides the open road when a young woman, traveling alone, encounters a renegade drifter and ends up in a fight for her life.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, revenge, car chase, female protagonist, on the road, hitchhiker, road trip, problem, risk, vengeance, criminal's revenge, threat ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nameless, pill-popping drifter girl steps off a bus and into a New Jersey neighborhood bar owned by two middle-age brothers, Jimmy & Victor. She quickly befriends older brother, Victor––a good-natured lummox whose mind was affected by a ...
Style:
captivating, light, romantic, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, drifter, addiction, love and romance, love story, in love, male female relationship, romantic triangle, love affair, romantic relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations ...
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138K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. One of the villagers takes care of him in prison. One day they both disappear – only the spear of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the ...
Style:
brutal, dark, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
brutality, wilderness, cannibalism, violent, native american, blood, rescue, murder, violence, cannibal, scalping, macabre ...
Time:
year 2015, 19th century, year 2016, 2010s, 1890s ...
Place:
america, north america, california
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style:
spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, teenage girl, mysterious stranger, greed, courage, murder, drifter, revenge, gunfight, wild west, u.s. marshal, man with no name ...
Time:
20th century, 1800s, year 1985, 80s, 1880s ...
Place:
california, sacramento california
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139K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and ...
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, dark comedy, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, gory, homeless, violence spree, social decay, fighting crime, violence, bum, prostitute, brutality, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2011, 80s, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, usa, canada, new jersey
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
bartender, drifter, trap, small town, debt, vigilante, survival, survival horror, psychopath, emotional abuse, home invasion, vengeance ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Story:
A drifter is a town's last hope of salvation from outlaws, but he can't escape the past he's trying to forget.
Style:
period piece, neo western, tense, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, showdown, sheriff, wasteland, gunslinger, post apocalypse, criminal, outlaw, redemption, small town, moral ambiguity, vigilantism ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
Style:
independent film, art house, artsy, contemplative, surreal ...
Plot:
drifter, slacker, dialogue, solitude, jazz, coming of age, hipster, alienation, saxophonist, psychiatric hospital, urban setting, psychiatric patient ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, epic, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
old west, violence, gunfight, wild west, gang war, small town, greed, vengeance, tough heroes, drifter, cowboy, death ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
mexico, latin america, new mexico, mexico city, arizona ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style:
cult classic, clever, neo noir, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, twists and turns, gunfight, ransom, money, violence, gangster, crime gone awry, pregnancy, hostage, criminal, car chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
bolivia, mexico
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlist a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Style:
suspense, entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, chase, mercenary, gunfight, manhunt, ex military, one against many, tough heroes, drifter, violent, justice, heroic bloodshed ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, spaghetti western, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, revenge, small town, anti hero, desert, greed, justice, murder, rape, mysterious man, vengeance, gang ...
Time:
19th century, year 1973, 1880s
Place:
arizona, usa, california
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