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10 Best Movies Like A Civilized Life

If you loved A Civilized Life, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Love's Enduring Promise

Love's Enduring Promise

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a han...

#2
Love's Abiding Joy

Love's Abiding Joy

2006★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion f...

#3
Love Takes Wing

Love Takes Wing

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was ...

#4
Love's Long Journey

Love's Long Journey

2005★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a cov...

#5
The Apple Dumpling Gang

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend o...

#6
The Claim

The Claim

2000★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civilized Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town...

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