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10 Best Movies Like Matthew and Son

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

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2003★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

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TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#3
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#4
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

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Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

1999★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matthew and Son for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution....

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