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10 Best Movies Like Good Mothers

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

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#1
May December

May December

2023★ 6.6

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

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their pas...

#2
Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive

2022★ 6.5

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

A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life....

#3
Speak

Speak

2004★ 7.1

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

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her paren...

#4
Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

2013★ 6.6

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

After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant....

#5
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

1958★ 7.1

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

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners....

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Grandview, U.S.A.

Grandview, U.S.A.

1984★ 5.8

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

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceano...

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