Movies Like My Antonia
If you liked My Antonia (1995), a tv movie and drama movie directed by Joseph Sargent, 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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The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieAn unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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Normal (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieA Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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Cheaters (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieIn the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
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TalhotBlond (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieThomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
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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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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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Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movieA college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
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Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and dramaA young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with…
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Skin (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaBased on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…
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The Call of the Wild (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaJohn 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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Frontera (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAfter crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s…
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
★ 6/10Also drama and tv movieDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and tv movieAt the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
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The Sound of Silence (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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Fast Girls (2012)
★ 6/10Also dramaA street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
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The Way West (1967)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaIn 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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movieAt a gathering of mystery and true crime fans, Aurora Teagarden’s nephew, Phillip, is accused of murder when an unplanned onstage blackout during the play in which he is performing ends, revealing Phillip holding the…