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10 Best Movies Like Desired Children

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

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2003★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desired Children for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

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Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desired Children for fans of TV Movie & 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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TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desired Children for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

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A Home of Our Own

A Home of Our Own

1993★ 6.9

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

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all...

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Faith Like Potatoes

Faith Like Potatoes

2006★ 7.3

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

Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims...

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When We Leave

When We Leave

2010★ 6.9

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

Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, wh...

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