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10 Best Movies Like An Orphan’s Cry

If you loved An Orphan’s Cry, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry 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...

#2
Lucky Them

Lucky Them

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-st...

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#5
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#6
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Orphan’s Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

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