Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Handcart

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

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#1
Hawaii

Hawaii

1966★ 6.3

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

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the nativ...

#2
San Francisco

San Francisco

1936★ 6.6

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

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906....

#3
The New World

The New World

2005★ 6.5

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

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century....

#4
Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

2015★ 5.8

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

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn...

#5
Sarah's Oil

Sarah's Oil

2025★ 8.1

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

Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy...

#6
Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

1990★ 6.3

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

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack fa...

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