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10 Best Movies Like Santa Barbara

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

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#1
All of My Heart: Inn Love

All of My Heart: Inn Love

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Brian and Jenny are preparing for the grand opening of their bed and breakfast, Emily's Country Inn, when a big storm hits Buck County. Brian agrees to go back to Wall Street to bo...

#2
Poinsettias for Christmas

Poinsettias for Christmas

2018★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

It’s just weeks before Christmas when Ellie gets a call to return home to help her father on the family’s poinsettia farm. The family business is on the line to deliver tens of tho...

#3
Safe Haven

Safe Haven

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her....

#4
Mr. 365

Mr. 365

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

When workaholic reality TV producer Sophie starts working on a holiday-season show about Will, a wildly sexy guy who celebrates Christmas every day of the year, she finds herself f...

#5
Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells

2016★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Nick and Molly, commitment-phobic and busy professionals with little in common, are asked to be the best man and maid of honor at the wedding of their mutual friends, Amy and Jamie...

#6
A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love

A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Barbara for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Multiple coincidences and a chance meeting bring together Alice and Jack, two strangers from very different family backgrounds, for an unexpected Christmastime courtship filled wit...

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