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10 Best Movies Like In Safe Hands

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

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#1
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

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

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

#2
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
Boxcar Bertha

Boxcar Bertha

1972★ 5.8

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

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the tw...

#5
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#6
Sunshine State

Sunshine State

2002★ 6.4

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

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development....

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