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10 Best Movies Like California

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

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#1
Love Begins

Love Begins

2011★ 7.9

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

Clark Davis adventurous dreams of seeing the world are put into jeopardy after he and a friend start a fight which damages a local cafe. Through a plea deal with the Sheriff and ca...

#2
The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968★ 6.3

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

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is off...

#3
The Sword and the Cross

The Sword and the Cross

1956★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California for fans of History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselve...

#4
Arn: The Knight Templar

Arn: The Knight Templar

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love....

#5
Long Days of Vengeance

Long Days of Vengeance

1967★ 5.9

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

After suffering three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. Now he seeks revenge....

#6
California

California

1927★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former all ardent and the latter defiant because of the fact that their countries are at wa...