Movies like All Roads Lead Home (2008)
The best movies like All Roads Lead Home (2008) are Storm Rider (2013), Saving Shiloh (2006) and Moondance Alexander (2007). If All Roads Lead Home hooked you with its drama and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAnne of Green Gables (1985)8.1/10 from 263 votes
- NewestI Can (2023)Released 2023
Storm Rider (2013)
When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. Forced to live with her uncle Sam on a farm without horses to ride and train, a sad Dani takes care of a young mule and learns what really counts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Saving Shiloh (2006)
In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his friend searches the woods to find the criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Moondance Alexander (2007)
Curiously named teen Moondance Alexander lives with her eccentric mother, and is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Long Shot (2004)
A woman moves with her husband and seven-year-old daughter from Colorado to California and then her husband abandons them. While trying to rebuild her life, she finds solace while working at a horse farm and decides to enter her beloved horse in a high-stakes riding competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Virginia's Run (2002)
A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Cowgirls n' Angels (2012)
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPuppy Love (2012)
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She immediately regrets her decision when Caitlin gravitates to the biggest, sloppiest dog in the pound, Jake. Megan's beautiful new home is now in shambles and, as Megan considers returning Jake to the shelter, handsome ballplayer Ben shows up claiming Jake is his dog, the regrettable outcome of his roommate leaving a gate open. Megan and Ben butt heads. Ben wants to take his dog and leave, until he sees that Caitlin loves Jake as much as he ever could. Now it is clear: the pound puppy everyone loves deserves no less than joint custody.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnnie's Point (2005)
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. The charm of this tale lies in her journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story (2005)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Horse for Summer (2015)
When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Jack of the Red Hearts (2016)
A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Derby Stallion (2005)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlabama Moon (2009)
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWish You Well (2013)
A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s. After a family tragedy, a young girl moves from New York with your younger brother to live with their great grandmother on a Virginia farm and comes closer to understanding the land and roots that inspired her father's writings while discovering herself, the love of family, and the power of truly believing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
The Way Home (2010)
An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Once I Was a Beehive (2015)
After losing her father to cancer, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlicka 2 (2010)
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just as free-spirited and strong-willed as Carrie. The two form a special bond and Carrie opens her heart to her father and a handsome, local boy, but when a jealous rival puts Flicka's life in jeopardy, Carrie must do whatever it takes to save her best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSo B. It (2016)
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDolphin Tale (2011)
A sea of animal rescuers — and a lonely boy in need of a friend – nurse an injured dolphin back to health after it loses its tail in a trap.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ride (1997)
A has-been cowboy is given a second chance at the hands of an unexpected teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Apple of My Eye (2017)
A young girl struggles after a traumatic horse riding accident causes her to lose her eyesight. CHARLES, the head trainer of Southeastern Guide Dogs, trains Apple, a miniature horse, to be her companion and surrogate eyes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay (2003)
A college girl decides to get to know her estranged father before she begins her education, but his life turns out to be nothing that she expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
I Can (2023)
A couple's adulterous affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy. They leave their spouses to begin a new life together, but their daughter Katelyn is born with a birth defect: only one fully developed arm. Although her dad believes Katelyn's condition is God’s punishment for the affair, Katelyn defies all odds with an incredible gift for softball.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
The Secret Path (1999)
14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been forced into a life of prostitution. Periodically escaping her miserable existence, Jo Ann finds comfort, security, and genuine love with a poor but proud African American couple: Honey and Too Tall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
About Scout (2015)
A rebellious Goth girl embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal young man in an effort to find her little sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stray (2017)
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 lightning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like All Roads Lead Home?
The closest matches to All Roads Lead Home are Storm Rider (2013), Saving Shiloh (2006) and Moondance Alexander (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after All Roads Lead Home?
People who watched All Roads Lead Home most often go on to Storm Rider (2013), Saving Shiloh (2006) and Moondance Alexander (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like All Roads Lead Home?
Anne of Green Gables (1985), rated 8.1/10 by 263 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like All Roads Lead Home?
I Can (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like All Roads Lead Home?
Yes: Storm Rider (2013), Saving Shiloh (2006) and Moondance Alexander (2007).
How are movies similar to All Roads Lead Home chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside All Roads Lead Home, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.