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10 Best Movies Like Distance

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

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#1
I Believe

I Believe

2019★ 7.7

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

A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way....

#2
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

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

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexua...

#3
The Stray

The Stray

2017★ 6.1

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

A young father takes his nine year old son, the family dog, and two of his son's friends backpacking in the mountains of Colorado only for all five of them to be struck by lightnin...

#4
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980★ 7.4

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

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disown...

#5
I Am David

I Am David

2003★ 6.8

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

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deli...

#6
Christmas Cottage

Christmas Cottage

2008★ 6.3

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

Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist ...

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