Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like A Carpenter and Children

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

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#1
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#2
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#3
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

#6
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Carpenter and Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

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