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10 Best Movies Like Maternité

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

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#1
Angel Face

Angel Face

2018★ 6.2

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

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to ye...

#2
I Stand Alone

I Stand Alone

1999★ 7.4

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

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daught...

#3
I Killed My Mother

I Killed My Mother

2009★ 7.4

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

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episode...

#4
Overboard

Overboard

1987★ 6.8

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

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overb...

#5
Mother

Mother

2019★ 6.7

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

Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year old son has disappeared. The last thing she heard of him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France a...

#6
Unthinkable

Unthinkable

2010★ 6.8

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

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent...

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