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10 Best Movies Like Very Recently

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

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#1
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Very Recently for fans of Drama & Romance & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#2
Let It Snow

Let It Snow

2013★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Very Recently for fans of Drama & Family & Romance & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday...

#3
Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Very Recently for fans of Drama & Romance & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other t...

#4
The Color of Friendship

The Color of Friendship

2000★ 6.7

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

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is ...

#5
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Very Recently for fans of Drama & Family & TV Movie. 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...

#6
Borrowed Hearts

Borrowed Hearts

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Very Recently for fans of Drama & Romance & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with the mysterious Mexican financier...

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