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10 Best Movies Like Dearest

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

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#1
Good One

Good One

2024★ 6.5

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

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend....

#2
Jimmy P.

Jimmy P.

2013★ 6.1

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

At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect...

#3
Swan Song

Swan Song

2021★ 7.1

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

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering th...

#4
True Grit

True Grit

1969★ 7.3

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

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because h...

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dearest 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...

#6
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1958★ 7.5

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

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year...

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