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Movies Like The Acacia Road

If you liked The Acacia Road (1954), a movie directed by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, 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. 1Peaceful Warrior

    Peaceful Warrior (2006)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.

  2. 2Upside Down

    Upside Down (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10

    In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually…

  3. 3Can You Keep a Secret?

    Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets, thinks she’s about to die on a turbulent plane ride. She spills them all to the handsome stranger sitting next to her. At least, she thought he was a stranger. But then, her…

  4. 4Eat Pray Love

    Eat Pray Love (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

  5. 5Georgetown

    Georgetown (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected…

  6. 6Do Revenge

    Do Revenge (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one another’s enemies.

  7. 7Someone Great

    Someone Great (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10

    An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…

  8. 8The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

  9. 9Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

    Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…

  10. 10How to Have Sex

    How to Have Sex (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

  11. 11Rebel Without a Cause

    Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a…

  12. 12The World to Come

    The World to Come (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

  13. 13City Lights

    City Lights (1931)

    ★ 8.2/10

    A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

  14. 14Below Her Mouth

    Below Her Mouth (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

  15. 15Playing It Cool

    Playing It Cool (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

  16. 16F Valentine's Day

    F Valentine's Day (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Gina hates her Valentine's Day birthday and travels to Greece to prevent her boyfriend's proposal. With help from vacationers Johnny and his sister Mickey, she schemes to delay it – while questioning her relationship.

  17. 17Mamma Mia!

    Mamma Mia! (2008)

    ★ 7/10

    A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

  18. 18¿Quieres ser mi hijo?

    ¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)

    ★ 8.4/10

    Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.

  19. 19One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    ★ 8.4/10

    A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

  20. 20Boot Camp

    Boot Camp (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Unathletic Whitney Carmichael signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations.

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