Movies Like Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is a 2008 comedy, drama, family, mystery film from Patricia Rozema with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Samantha: An American Girl Holiday and Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.

Comedy Drama Family Mystery

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday

2004

Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from completely different backgrounds, Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger.

6.5

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Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

2005

A pre-American Revolution Virginian girl's love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she yearns to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into contact with a beautiful mare which has suffered at the hands of its callous owner, she takes it upon herself to care for the creature.

6.6

MagicScore

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

2006

Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.

7.1

MagicScore

An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong

2009

A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.

6.7

MagicScore

An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars

2012

A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.

6.9

MagicScore

An American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky

2013

Saige Copeland is a talented artist who loves horses. She's pumped up about the new school year and seeing her best friend Tessa. But that changes when Tessa seems to be hanging out with another girl and when art class is cut. Saige, now trapped, goes to her grandmother for help and takes action. Saige now must face her fear and overcome her stage fright. Can Saige let go of her fears and her jealousy to shine bright and regain her friendship with Tessa?

7.1

MagicScore

An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success

2015

Grace is excited for the summer so she can start a business with her friends, but things take an unexpected turn when her mom announces a trip to Paris. There, Grace must learn to get along with her French cousin, Sylvie, and she finds unexpected inspiration for her business. Then, Grace finds out her grandparents bakery, that inspired her to start a business, is closing. Can she and her friends find a way to save it?

7.5

MagicScore

An American Girl: Lea to the Rescue

2016

Born for adventure, Lea Clark heads deep into the Brazilian rainforest, where her most exciting story awaits.

6.5

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Beloved

1998

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

5.8

MagicScore

#10

Rain Man

1988

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

7.8

MagicScore

#11

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

2019

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

7.0

MagicScore

#12

The Public

2019

An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

Marauders

2016

An untraceable group of elite bank robbers is chased by a suicidal FBI agent who uncovers a deeper purpose behind the robbery-homicides.

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Cincinnati's Rock 'N Roll Legends

1995

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Rock Legends" "James Brown" "King Records" "Pure Prairie League" "Lemon Pipers" "Syd Nathan" WEBN "Bootsy Collins" "Lonnie Mack" "The Who concert 1979" "Rick Derringer"

5.6

MagicScore

#15

Big

1988

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

7.2

MagicScore

#16

Annaluise & Anton

1999

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.

6.5

MagicScore

#18

What a Girl Wants

2003

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

All You've Got

2006

Three friends' love for volleyball is tested to the limit when their school burns to the ground and they are forced to join a rival school in order to win the national championship.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

Nobody Loves Me

1994

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Kit Kittredge: An American Girl?

The top films similar to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl by MovieMagicScore are Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (6.5), Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (6.6), Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (7.1). Each shares comedy/drama/family/mystery themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Kit Kittredge: An American Girl worth watching?

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 134 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Kit Kittredge: An American Girl?

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) is a comedy, drama, family, mystery film directed by Patricia Rozema, starring Abigail Breslin, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond.

Where can I find more recommendations like Kit Kittredge: An American Girl?

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