Movies Like Hair of the Bear
If you liked Hair of the Bear (2026), a drama and thriller movie directed by James McLellan and Alexandre Trudeau, 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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Dead of Winter (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerA widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young…
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Wildlike (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerFourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in…
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Against the Ice (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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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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An Unfinished Life (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaStoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of his only son arrives at his door…
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Into the Wild (2007)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaAfter graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the…
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The River Wild (1994)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and dramaGail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose…
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Endless Night (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaEllesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to…
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The Impossible (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thrillerIn December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying…
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Alive (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaThe amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to…
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaTwo teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
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Cassandra's Dream (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerThe tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaWounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerWith the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps…
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a…
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Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerWhen a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
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Dad (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…
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Spencer's Mountain (1963)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaClay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia…
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Midnight Special (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.