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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
Throw Momma from the Train

Throw Momma from the Train

1987★ 6.2

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

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock cl...

#2
Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry

1997★ 7.3

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

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result....

#3
American Fiction

American Fiction

2023★ 7.3

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

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims...

#4
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002★ 6.1

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

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let g...

#5
The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

1982★ 6.7

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

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon....

#6
The Savages

The Savages

2007★ 6.9

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

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father....

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