15 Movies Like The Birch Wood
Loved The Birch Wood? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
365 Days: This Day
Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Birch Wood.
The Next 365 Days
Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Birch Wood.
365 Days
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Birch Wood.
Dances with Wolves
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Train Dreams
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Here
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Mr. Church
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Anne of Green Gables
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Minari
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
The River
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Fences
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
Shameless
In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to his half-sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Birch Wood.
The Straight Story
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Birch Wood.
The Coldest Game
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Birch Wood.