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10 Best Movies Like The Secret Garden

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

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#1
The Minimalists: Less Is Now

The Minimalists: Less Is Now

2021★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Secret Garden for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less....

#2
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

2020★ 6.3

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

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickl...

#3
Tough Enough

Tough Enough

2006★ 6.8

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

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s a...

#4
D'Artagnan's Daughter

D'Artagnan's Daughter

1994★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Secret Garden for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little...

#5
Elementary

Elementary

2017★ 6.6

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

Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of negle...

#6
End of the Spear

End of the Spear

2005★ 6.2

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

"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to de...