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10 Best Movies Like A Family Thing

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

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#1
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Family Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let g...

#2
The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Family Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communic...

#3
Shadow of the Thin Man

Shadow of the Thin Man

1941★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Family Thing for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder....

#4
The Letter

The Letter

1940★ 7.3

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

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions....

#5
Throw Momma from the Train

Throw Momma from the Train

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Family Thing for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock cl...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Family Thing 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 ...

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