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10 Best Movies Like Midway to Heaven

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

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#1
Our Souls at Night

Our Souls at Night

2017★ 6.7

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

Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a co...

#2
Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

2005★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midway to Heaven for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses...

#3
The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midway to Heaven for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother....

#4
Tim

Tim

1979★ 6.2

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

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they ...

#5
Safe Haven

Safe Haven

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midway to Heaven for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her....

#6
Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midway to Heaven for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even mo...

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