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10 Best Movies Like Earth Mama

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

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#1
Ken Park

Ken Park

2003★ 6.0

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

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people w...

#2
Like Dandelion Dust

Like Dandelion Dust

2009★ 6.9

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

Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family a...

#3
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#4
20th Century Women

20th Century Women

2016★ 7.3

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

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change ...

#5
Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story

Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story

2020★ 6.1

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

Interweaving stories of four different women involved in the sex industry offers a glimpse into the dark underbelly of Los Angeles and the taboo lifestyle of a sex worker. A teen r...

#6
Short Term 12

Short Term 12

2013★ 7.8

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

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior b...

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