Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Return to Nature

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

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#1
Under the Hawthorn Tree

Under the Hawthorn Tree

2010★ 7.8

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

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a...

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
Northfork

Northfork

2003★ 5.9

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

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley ...

#5
Black Dog

Black Dog

2024★ 7.2

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

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of str...

#6
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

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