Movies Like Jill and Joy's Winter

If you liked Jill and Joy's Winter (2015), a family movie directed by Saara Cantell, 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
Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also family
A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
2
The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also family
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
3
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also family
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with…
4
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
★ 6.8/10Also family
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater…
5
Burn Your Maps (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also family
A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.
6
Adventures of Dally and Spanky (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also family
A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.
7
My Spy The Eternal City (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also family
JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
8
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also family
At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
9
An American Rhapsody (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also family
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has…
10
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
★ 7/10Also family
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different…
11
Sarafina! (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also family
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
12
Touchback (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also family
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
13
Will (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also family
Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a public school in the south of England since his father Gareth is emotionally unable to care for him following the death…
14
Preacher's Kid (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.
15
Twin Sitters (1994)
★ 6.4/10Also family
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
16
Heavyweights (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel…
17
The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also family
On May 9, 1986, a small ranching community in Wyoming experiences a divine intervention when a couple detonates a bomb inside a crowded classroom.
18
Space Buddies (2009)
★ 5.8/10Also family
B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, and all the rest of the Buddies are back, but this time, they're setting their sights even higher -- as in, the moon! With the help of their new pals Spudnick and Gravity, these pooches are…
19
Troop Zero (2019)
★ 7/10Also family
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie…
20
Dear Frankie (2004)
★ 7/10Also family
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run…