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10 Best Movies Like Amateur Daddy

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

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#1
Evelyn

Evelyn

2002★ 6.4

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

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the child...

#2
Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

2016★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur Daddy for fans of Drama. 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....

#3
Nowhere Special

Nowhere Special

2020★ 7.2

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

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is give...

#4
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#5
I Am Sam

I Am Sam

2001★ 7.6

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

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's li...

#6
Any Day Now

Any Day Now

2012★ 7.0

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

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangemen...

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