After watching Premium Rush, I was on an extreme bicycle-movie kick, specifically bike messengers/couriers/delivery people. So I stumbled upon this 1986 film, Quicksilver, which sounded similar to Premium Rush so I watched it. Turns out it was nothing like Premium Rush and was also incredibly bad, because everyone except the extras acted like complete morons and left me with a craving for brain cells and, more than before, a movie as good as Premium Rush. The website Best Similar, though it hasn't helped me find a movie like Premium Rush, has given me so many new movies to watch.
It's explicitly for that purpose, so that you can click on a genre or a defining trait of that movie and find the exact thing you're in the mood for (bicycles, chases, NYC, corrupt officials, cops, college, high school, drama, romance, comedy, road trips, moving out, growing up, switching bodies, heists, magic, fairy tales, grief, loss, nostalgia, parties, cars, fashion, suspense, thrillers, etc.) and now I have a couple bicycle movies on my watchlist as well as other movies they said were similar.
LINK. https://bestsimilar.com/
If that doesn't work to find a movie, try couchpop.com - I'm not sure how to best navigate their website yet, but if you google "similar to _ couchpop", you can go to a page that compares movies to that movie, as well as gives taglines for that movie. This way, you click on the tagline(s) of the things you want to see replicated in another movie and it takes you to a list of movies like that. For me, it would be bicycles, bicycle courier, race against the clock, crime, maybe NYC, etc.
You can also try taste.io or tastedive.com (both of which may be similar to couchpop in that you have to google it to get to the right page). Reddit is also helpful if you have an account and are desperate enough to wait a few weeks to a year before people reply with good suggestions. Or reply at all.
If you're still not satisfied with that, go watch Premium Rush and be unsatisfied about the fact that it is the only good bicycle movie out there and there isn't really anything better than Wilee getting chased by a cop and losing his cool bc he's so sick of nearly dying, doing stunts and marathons around NYC, all while tryna beat the clock. It won't make you feel any better but at least it'll make you feel like me.
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