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Movies Like The Vinland Club

If you liked The Vinland Club (2021), a drama movie directed by Benoît Pilon, 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. 1Valhalla Rising

    Valhalla Rising (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are…

  2. 2Anemone

    Anemone (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally…

  3. 3Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society (1989)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern…

  4. 4I Killed My Mother

    I Killed My Mother (2009)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the…

  5. 5A Bag of Marbles

    A Bag of Marbles (2017)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star…

  6. 6The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

  7. 7Little Women

    Little Women (1933)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

  8. 8The Indian Runner

    The Indian Runner (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which…

  9. 9Steve

    Steve (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.

  10. 10Waterland

    Waterland (1992)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations…

  11. 11Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…

  12. 12White Squall

    White Squall (1996)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the…

  13. 13Bridge to Terabithia

    Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's…

  14. 14The Quiet Son

    The Quiet Son (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Pierre, a devoted father in his 50s, raises his two sons alone. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more…

  15. 15Apt Pupil

    Apt Pupil (1998)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later…

  16. 16Mudbound

    Mudbound (2017)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

  17. 17Doubt

    Doubt (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.

  18. 18The Kindergarten Teacher

    The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and…

  19. 19Trumbo

    Trumbo (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

  20. 20October Sky

    October Sky (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

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