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10 Best Movies Like So Big!

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

#1
A Serious Man

A Serious Man

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to So Big! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with o...

#2
Show Boat

Show Boat

1929★ 5.7

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

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is ...

#3
The Miracle Woman

The Miracle Woman

1931★ 6.7

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

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her f...

#4
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#5
1917

1917

2019★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to So Big! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers....

#6
Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit

2019★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to So Big! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary...