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10 Best Movies Like Dakota's Summer

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

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#1
Cowgirls n' Angels

Cowgirls n' Angels

2012★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them....

#2
Flicka 2

Flicka 2

2010★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, ...

#3
Black Beauty

Black Beauty

1994★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life....

#4
Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. ...

#5
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown

Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown

2017★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The...

#6
Barnyard

Barnyard

2006★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota's Summer for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Otis is a mischievous, carefree Holstein cow who lives on a farm where, unbeknownst to humans, the animals are anthropomorphic. He prefers having fun with his best friends: Pip the...

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