
10 Best Movies Like Closer to Home
If you loved Closer to Home, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Like Dandelion Dust
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family a...

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster ...

Faith Like Potatoes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims...

Evelyn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the child...

Short Term 12
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior b...

A Home of Our Own
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all...