10 Best Movies Like Friendly Persuasion
If you loved Friendly Persuasion, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 ...

Cheaters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

The Retrieval
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man....

Free State of Jones
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew ...

Starving in Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

40 Acres
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Friendly Persuasion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now stru...