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10 Best Movies Like Mother's Day

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#6
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

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