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10 Best Movies Like A Child's Wish

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

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#1
Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

2016★ 7.2

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

A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead....

#2
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Child's Wish for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

#3
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Child's Wish for fans of Drama & TV Movie. 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 ...

#4
Lullaby

Lullaby

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Child's Wish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, ...

#5
Brian's Song

Brian's Song

1971★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Child's Wish for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying....

#6
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Child's Wish for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat ou...

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