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Movies Like October Glow

If you liked October Glow (2025), a drama movie directed by Jagger Nelson, 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.

  1. 1Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  2. 2Good Day, Ramon

    Good Day, Ramon (2013)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely…

  3. 3Edie

    Edie (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, 83-year-old Edie decides that it is never too late. After packing an old camping bag, she leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to…

  4. 4People Like Us

    People Like Us (2012)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never…

  5. 5Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…

  6. 6Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  7. 7The Christmas Shoes

    The Christmas Shoes (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…

  8. 8Penguin Bloom

    Penguin Bloom (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.

  9. 9Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  10. 10Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace

    Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)

    ★ 8.4/10Also drama

    Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.

  11. 11All Together Now

    All Together Now (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

  12. 12The Program

    The Program (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will…

  13. 13Blue Chips

    Blue Chips (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the…

  14. 14Matt and Mara

    Matt and Mara (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, she runs into Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, when he wanders onto her…

  15. 15Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  16. 16I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  17. 17Jimmy P.

    Jimmy P. (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric…

  18. 18The Color of Friendship

    The Color of Friendship (2000)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from…

  19. 19Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  20. 20Radium Girls

    Radium Girls (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

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