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Movies Like Within a Stone's Throw

If you liked Within a Stone's Throw (2012), a movie directed by Cecelia Condit, 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. 1Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  2. 2Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  3. 3The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  4. 4Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  5. 5Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  6. 6The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  7. 7I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  8. 8Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  9. 9Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  10. 10The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  11. 11The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  12. 12Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  13. 13Lions Love

    Lions Love (1969)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

  14. 14Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  15. 15A Dry White Season

    A Dry White Season (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10

    During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

  16. 16TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Thomas 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.

  17. 17I Can't Think Straight

    I Can't Think Straight (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla…

  18. 18Tuesday

    Tuesday (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

  19. 19Hideaways

    Hideaways (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother…

  20. 20All About Nina

    All About Nina (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own…

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