Movies Like The Watsons Go to Birmingham

If you liked The Watsons Go to Birmingham (2013), a family and tv movie movie directed by Kenny Leon, 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
The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also family
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
2
The Call of the Wild (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also family
John 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…
3
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
★ 6/10Also family
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!
4
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and…
5
Three Wishes (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also family
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed…
6
All the Way (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movie
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually…
7
Six Pack (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn…
8
Alabama Moon (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also family
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
9
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
★ 6.7/10Also family
Clay 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…
10
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Legends (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…
11
God Bless the Broken Road (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also family
The story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence.
12
Hope and Glory (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also family
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
13
Normal (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movie
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
14
Save the Last Dance (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also family
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her…
15
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
★ 6/10Also tv movie
Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…
16
Disaster Holiday (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also family
A workaholic dad, trying to win over his kids, heads to the coast of Durban for a big work meeting — under the guise of a family road trip vacation.
17
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movie
Homer and Marge's fun couples' date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs…
18
Love's Long Journey (2005)
★ 7/10Also family and tv movie
Missie'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…
19
Love the Coopers (2015)
★ 6/10Also family
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising…
20
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movie
Based 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.