Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Mother

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

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#1
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

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

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#2
The War Below

The War Below

2021★ 6.7

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

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate o...

#3
303 Squadron

303 Squadron

2018★ 5.9

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

After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts....

#4
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.3

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

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#5
The World Will Tremble

The World Will Tremble

2025★ 7.5

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

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account ...

#6
The Grey Zone

The Grey Zone

2001★ 6.6

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

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assi...

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