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10 Best Movies Like Cross Creek

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

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#1
Nights in Rodanthe

Nights in Rodanthe

2008★ 6.2

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

Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks ...

#2
The Yellow Handkerchief

The Yellow Handkerchief

2009★ 6.3

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

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness....

#3
Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991★ 7.7

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

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced h...

#4
Breathe

Breathe

2017★ 7.4

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

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

#5
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

1999★ 6.7

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

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...

#6
The Lost Husband

The Lost Husband

2020★ 6.8

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

Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas....

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