Movies like Safe Harbor (2009)
The best movies like Safe Harbor (2009) are All at Once (2016), Noble (2014) and Plainsong (2004). If Safe Harbor hooked you with its drama and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedIf I Stay (2014)7.3/10 from 4,379 votes
- NewestStill Here (2020)Released 2020
All at Once (2016)
A young artist in New York City accepts guardianship of his best friends' daughters after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Eleven years later, he returns to his hometown to raise the two girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Noble (2014)
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlainsong (2004)
Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Shunning (2011)
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStill Here (2020)
Christian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a 12 years old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help the family find the girl
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hateship Loveship (2014)
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeverly Lewis' The Confession (2013)
Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who goes on a journey in search of her identity - only to find herself embroiled in a mystery that must be solved before she can be reunited with the "Englisher" mother who gave her up to adoption 20 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Crown Heights (2017)
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere Safe (2014)
After two girls cruelly impersonate her online in a "reverse cyber bullying" plot, Ashley's reputation is ruined and she and her mother flee a growing threat to their lives. Starting over at a new school, romantic interests and the poignant lessons from an eccentric history teacher draw them out of seclusion until they realize confronting a hurtful past is essential to ensure a brighter future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunlight Jr. (2013)
Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCustody (2016)
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLow Low (2019)
Four high-school girls attempting to navigate their last day of summer in a failing town. Beset by sex, drugs, and violence, what begins as a cautionary tale of misguided youth becomes a story of atonement as our heroes discover their strength as young women and the true love that exists amongst best friends. What follows takes place over the course of 36 hours...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gracie's Choice (2004)
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Name Is Emily (2016)
Packed off to a foster home after her father is institutionalized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Book of Love (2017)
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRails & Ties (2007)
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSafelight (2015)
A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisApril Showers (2009)
A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Class (2010)
When a privileged law student gets a homework assignment to help a disadvantaged single mother find—and keep—a job, he learns that some of the greatest lessons aren’t taught in school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Firelight (2012)
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Forger (2011)
While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBluebird (2014)
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
When Andrew Came Home (2000)
A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his kidnappers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
If I Stay (2014)
Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock singer/guitarist. However, a car wreck changes everything in an instant, and now Mia's life hangs in the balance. Suspended between life and death, Mia faces a choice that will decide her future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDear Eleanor (2016)
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGirl in the Box (2016)
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Safe Harbor?
The closest matches to Safe Harbor are All at Once (2016), Noble (2014) and Plainsong (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Safe Harbor?
People who watched Safe Harbor most often go on to All at Once (2016), Noble (2014) and Plainsong (2004).
What is the highest-rated movie like Safe Harbor?
If I Stay (2014), rated 7.3/10 by 4,379 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Safe Harbor?
Still Here (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Safe Harbor?
Yes: All at Once (2016), Noble (2014) and Plainsong (2004).
How are movies similar to Safe Harbor chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Safe Harbor, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.