Movies like The Shunning (2011)
The best movies like The Shunning (2011) are Beverly Lewis' The Confession (2013), Love Finds You in Charm (2015) and Expecting Amish (2014). If The Shunning 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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- NewestAn Easter Bloom (2024)Released 2024
Beverly 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
Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExpecting Amish (2014)
Expecting Amish tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change when she goes to Hollywood and gets a glimpse of the world beyond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Reckoning (2015)
Katie Mayfield is now the mistress of Mayfield Manor. In her new world she finds herself torn between two worlds and grieves for her plain Amish life. Does Katie choose her new life or the simple heritage she left behind?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Amish Grace (2010)
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn Uncommon Grace (2017)
An army nurse returning from Afghanistan discovers her purpose in a rural Ohio farm community, along with a deep connection with a neighbor whose conservative Amish sect strictly forbids relationships with those outside his church community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Finds You In Sugarcreek (2014)
Will a mysterious stranger's past wreak havoc on a quiet Amish community after they've opened their doors -- and hearts -- to him and his son?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaving Sarah Cain (2007)
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Wishing Well (2009)
Widower, Mark Jansen, owns and runs the local newspaper for the Midwest town he grew up in. As he struggles to make ends meet, his daughter takes his happiness into her hands by going down to the famous wishing well their little town is known for, and wishing for just that - his happiness. Shortly after, a glamorous woman appears in town by the name of Cynthia Tamerline. Lead by Mark's daughter, Cynthia makes a trip to the well herself and casts a wish. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds that she has been transported to an alternate universe that ultimately changes her forever.
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
Notes from the Heart Healer (2012)
A single young mom forms an unlikely friendship with author Peyton, after a desperate situation forces her to abandon her child on Peyton's doorstep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Princess Kaiulani (2010)
Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAn Easter Bloom (2024)
A young gardener sets out to save her family farm by entering a floral competition for Easter. She meets a local pastor along the way who helps her restore the hope she lost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
12 Days of Giving (2017)
A photographer uses his cash prize to anonymously give gifts, sparking a change in the community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn Amish Murder (2013)
The Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder, a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life behind. Fifteen years later, Kate returns to Painter’s Mill as its Chief of Police. Certain she’s come to terms with her past, Kate’s renewed life in her hometown is shattered when a murder investigation triggers deep-seated emotions from her childhood and exposes a dark secret that could destroy her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSafe Harbor (2009)
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gift of the Magi (2010)
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Annie'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
Sweetness in the Belly (2019)
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen Calls the Heart (2013)
Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPerfect Pie (2002)
On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesca Prine - whose real name is Marie Beck - returns to Marmora, Ontario to sing in a benefit concert. Patsy and Marie were best friends from the time Marie and her family arrived in Marmora when she was ten years old to the time she left Marmora at age fifteen, which was thirty years prior. With the exception of Don Rayford on who Marie had a crush, Patsy was shy Marie's only friend in Marmora. However, Marie and Patsy have not been in touch since due to issues that drove Marie out of town at the time. Those issues include Marie being physically abused by her alcoholic mother, but most specifically what happened the evening of the Sadie Hawkins dance - where Don accompanied Marie - and post dance down by the railroad tracks. Marie and Patsy's reunion may not be able to endure the thirty years of silence and the events of that night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Expecting a Miracle (2009)
Botched directions lead a struggling couple to a small Mexican town whose residents have a positive effect on the pair's faltering marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Place Called Home (2004)
Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Yellowknife (2002)
The film tells the story of three couples on the road between the Atlantic coast and the Northwest Territories in Canada.
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Edge of the Garden (2011)
Newly single Brian Connor moves to Maine and buys a long abandoned house in the country. After moving in, he begins to communicate with a woman who lived in the house 50 years ago and who died under mysterious circumstances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Paper Angels (2014)
An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020)
As Christina prepares her restaurant for its busiest time of year, she gets back a DNA test revealing that she’s Jewish. The discovery leads her to a new family and an unlikely romance over eight nights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fallen Hearts (2019)
Heaven is now happily married and ready to settle back in her hometown. But after a trip to Farthinggale Manor, Heaven is persuaded to stay. Lured by her grandfather to live amidst the wealthy and privileged Heaven seems to have it all until the ghosts of her past rise up once more, threatening her precious new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again (2017)
When the Postables discover an antique vase, they trace it back to three girls who attempted to sell it in to save their family farm. With the farm again facing hardship, the Postables must choose between doing what's legal and what's moral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Shunning?
The closest matches to The Shunning are Beverly Lewis' The Confession (2013), Love Finds You in Charm (2015) and Expecting Amish (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Shunning?
People who watched The Shunning most often go on to Beverly Lewis' The Confession (2013), Love Finds You in Charm (2015) and Expecting Amish (2014).
What is the newest movie like The Shunning?
An Easter Bloom (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Shunning?
Yes: Beverly Lewis' The Confession (2013), Love Finds You in Charm (2015) and Expecting Amish (2014).
How are movies similar to The Shunning chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Shunning, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.