Movies Like Love's Abiding Joy
If you liked Love's Abiding Joy (2006), a drama and romance movie directed by Michael Landon Jr., 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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Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceIn the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive…
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Love's Long Journey (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceMissie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie…
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Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceCenters on Missy's adopted daughter Belinda Tyler as she follows her dream. Belinda wants to be a doctor, but this time period does not look kindly on women with careers, especially one in the medical field. But…
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Love Comes Softly (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceNineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Widower Clark…
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Love Takes Wing (2009)
★ 7/10Also drama and westernBelinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and…
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Crossfire Trail (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and westernRafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an…
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
★ 7.6/10Also western and dramaKansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too…
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The Outsider (2002)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceMontana sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder offers sanctuary to an on-the-lam outlaw, Johnny Gault, who is suffering from a gunshot wound. Yoder is a recent widow, and her decision to help the outsider doesn't sit well with her…
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The Way West (1967)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and westernIn the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on…
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The Claim (2000)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are…
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Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and westernA logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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The Call of the Wild (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and familyJohn Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles…
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also family and westernLegends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War…
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True Grit (2010)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and westernFollowing the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
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The Quick and the Dead (1987)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and westernIn 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.
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True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10Also western and 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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The Revenant (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also western and dramaIn the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Mansfield Park (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and dramaFanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
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Hollywood Dirt (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceHollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah…
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The Unforgiven (1960)
★ 6.2/10Also western and dramaThe neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.