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10 Best Movies Like Happy Birthday

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

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#1
Around the Bend

Around the Bend

2004★ 5.9

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

A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years ...

#2
The Railway Children

The Railway Children

1970★ 6.7

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

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mot...

#3
The Greening of Whitney Brown

The Greening of Whitney Brown

2011★ 6.0

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

Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort ...

#4
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980★ 7.4

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

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disown...

#5
Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

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

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. ...

#6
Flicka 2

Flicka 2

2010★ 6.7

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

Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, ...

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