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10 Best Movies Like Enlighten Thy Daughter

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

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#1
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Enlighten Thy Daughter 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....

#3
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Enlighten Thy Daughter 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...

#4
Call Jane

Call Jane

2022★ 6.5

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

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Enlighten Thy Daughter 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
Road to Paloma

Road to Paloma

2014★ 5.9

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

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with ...

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