Movies Like Picnic at Hanging Rock
If you liked Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), a drama and mystery movie directed by Peter Weir, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also dramaSamantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
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Lion (2016)
★ 8/10Also dramaA five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his…
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mysteryAfter freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…
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Enola Holmes (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also mysteryWhile searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaFollows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSet in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…
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If I Stay (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaMia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her…
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaAfter being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire…
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The Invisible (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryAfter an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaWhen architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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Walkabout (1971)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaUnder the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred…
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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Sarah's Oil (2025)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaSarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to…
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True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…
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Jasper Jones (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mysteryFourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.
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Wonderstruck (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaThe story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
★ 6.8/10Also mysterySherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a…
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
★ 7/10Also dramaIn 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
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The Outsiders (1983)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival…
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mysteryEngland, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to…