Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like My Son

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

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#1
Good Boy

Good Boy

2026★ 7.3

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

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to ...

#2
A Thousand and One

A Thousand and One

2023★ 6.6

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

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable ...

#3
The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

1949★ 6.8

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

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal....

#4
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

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

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#5
Saint Omer

Saint Omer

2022★ 6.2

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

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues,...

#6
Perfect Nanny

Perfect Nanny

2019★ 6.1

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

When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume her activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a sever...

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