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10 Best Movies Like National Velvet

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

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#1
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

1991★ 7.4

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

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc r...

#2
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

2005★ 7.0

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

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner....

#3
Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Velvet for fans of Drama & 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. ...

#4
Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015★ 7.0

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

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome...

#5
A Sunday Horse

A Sunday Horse

2016★ 6.3

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

After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of wi...

#6
The Derby Stallion

The Derby Stallion

2005★ 5.9

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

An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it....

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