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10 Best Movies Like Babbitt

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

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#1
A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

2003★ 6.3

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

Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them aroun...

#2
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#3
Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

2017★ 6.1

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

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection....

#4
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#5
The Stalking Moon

The Stalking Moon

1968★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Babbitt for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tr...

#6
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

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