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10 Best Movies Like Fanny

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

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#1
Fatherhood

Fatherhood

2021★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fanny for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story....

#2
Riding in Cars with Boys

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fanny for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father....

#3
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945★ 7.6

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

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter....

#4
The Crisis

The Crisis

1992★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fanny for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets ...

#5
A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961★ 7.0

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

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarr...

#6
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fanny for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

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