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Movies Like The Sea of Trees

If you liked The Sea of Trees (2016), a drama movie directed by Gus Van Sant, 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. 1Cast Away

    Cast Away (2000)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…

  2. 2The Music Never Stopped

    The Music Never Stopped (2011)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and…

  3. 3Leave No Trace

    Leave No Trace (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to…

  4. 447 Ronin

    47 Ronin (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the…

  5. 5Upstream Color

    Upstream Color (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

  6. 6Certain Women

    Certain Women (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home…

  7. 7Premonition

    Premonition (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still…

  8. 8Big Eyes

    Big Eyes (2014)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush…

  9. 9Before I Fall

    Before I Fall (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…

  10. 10Batman Begins

    Batman Begins (2005)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol…

  11. 11The Starling

    The Starling (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.

  12. 12Colossal

    Colossal (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

  13. 13Fathers and Daughters

    Fathers and Daughters (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

  14. 14Bambi

    Bambi (1942)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

  15. 15The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life…

  16. 16Medicine Man

    Medicine Man (1992)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

  17. 17A Far Off Place

    A Far Off Place (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a…

  18. 18Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  19. 19On Fire

    On Fire (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son…

  20. 20Nell

    Nell (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

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