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10 Best Movies Like Maternity Blues

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

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#1
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#2
Thou Shalt Not Hate

Thou Shalt Not Hate

2020★ 6.2

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

Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds...

#3
Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

2012★ 6.3

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

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years...

#4
Bad Tales

Bad Tales

2020★ 6.7

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

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illu...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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40 Seconds

40 Seconds

2025★ 7.2

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

It explores the tragic events leading up to the murder of 21-year-old Willy Monteiro Duarte, highlighting the intertwining of chance encounters, rivalries, and latent tensions....

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