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

Scarecrow
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh....

The Fugitive Kind
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued ...

Inventing the Abbotts
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer...

Some Came Running
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going profe...

Here on Earth
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race ...

Blue Valentine
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Picnic for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retr...