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10 Best Movies Like Doctor Jim

If you loved Doctor Jim, 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 Doctor Jim 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
The Doctor

The Doctor

1991★ 6.5

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

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and d...

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doctor Jim 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....

#4
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#5
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

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

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#6
That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun

2009★ 6.7

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

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

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