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10 Best Movies Like A Mother Should Be Loved

If you loved A Mother Should Be Loved, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Moving

Moving

1993★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity....

#2
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#3
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved 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....

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#6
The Congress

The Congress

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Mother Should Be Loved for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider....

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