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10 Best Movies Like Where the Red Fern Grows

If you loved Where the Red Fern Grows, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Holes

Holes

2003★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all ...

#2
Life on the Line

Life on the Line

2016★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As a huge electrical storm sweeps towards Texas, lineman Beau Ginner is haunted by memories of his brother's death by lightning years earlier. Since that tragic day, he has raised ...

#3
Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows

1974★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming c...

#4
You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

1942★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer....

#5
Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras

2005★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it...

#6
A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Red Fern Grows for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arr...