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10 Best Movies Like Mother Elif

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

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#1
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#2
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

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

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Elif for fans of Drama. 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...

#4
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Elif 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 ...

#6
I Am David

I Am David

2003★ 6.9

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

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deli...

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