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10 Best Movies Like A Family Man

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

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#1
Lamb

Lamb

2015★ 6.0

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

Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to ...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Life as a House

Life as a House

2001★ 7.1

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

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and a...

#4
Gladiator

Gladiator

1992★ 7.6

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

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world...

#5
Derailed

Derailed

2005★ 6.4

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

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families....

#6
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

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