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Movies: Best "drifter" Movies


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Inferno(1999)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 35min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 120 votes)

Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early (Pat Morita) lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.

Hard Target(1993)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 37min | Action
3.2/5 (with 463 votes)

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists 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.

The Master(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,303 votes)

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Bone Tomahawk(2015)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 12min | Western, Horror, Drama
3.4/5 (with 983 votes)

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

Fallen Angels(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Action, Romance / Love, Crime
3.9/5 (with 378 votes)

Two tales of crimes intertwine in present-day Hong Kong.

Directed by Wong Kar-wai - With Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Michelle Reis, Chan Fai-hung, ...

They Call Me Trinity(1970)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 46min | Action, Comedy, Western
3.8/5 (with 563 votes)

The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.

You Can Count on Me(2000)

1h 51min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 125 votes)

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

The Doom Generation(1995)

3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Bunraku(2010)

1h 58min | Thriller, Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 135 votes)

In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.

Black Butterfly(2017)

1h 33min | Thriller, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 234 votes)

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.

The Way of the Gun(2000)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 59min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 177 votes)

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.

Three Wishes(1995)

3.1/5 (with 31 votes)

While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.

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Ossessione(1944)

3.8/5 (with 99 votes)

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Scarecrow(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 116 votes)

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Vagabond(1985)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

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 odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Five Easy Pieces(1970)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 210 votes)

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.

Picnic(1956)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

Permanent Vacation(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 15min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

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.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch - With Frankie Faison, Sara Driver, John Lurie, Felice Rosser, Eric Mitchell

The Postman Always Rings Twice(1946)

3.5/5 (with 131 votes)

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Man Without a Star(1955)

1h 29min | Western
3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

Cruel Story of Youth(1960)

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

The Boy(2015)

1h 45min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 86 votes)

An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

Mojave(2015)

1h 33min | Thriller
2.6/5 (with 55 votes)

A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.

It Can Be Done, Amigo(1972)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Western
3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

The Hired Hand(1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min | Western
3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.

The Petrified Forest(1936)

3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Blood on the Moon(1948)

3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.

The Oak Room(2020)

1h 29min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 16 votes)

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 spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.

Fallen Angel(1945)

3.2/5 (with 44 votes)

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

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