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10 Best Movies Like Cross Creek

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

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#1
Nights in Rodanthe

Nights in Rodanthe

2008★ 6.2

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

Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks ...

#2
Genius

Genius

2016★ 6.5

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,...

#3
The Yellow Handkerchief

The Yellow Handkerchief

2009★ 6.3

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

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness....

#4
Castaway

Castaway

1986★ 6.3

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

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, bu...

#5
Breathe

Breathe

2017★ 7.4

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

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

#6
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

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