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10 Best Movies Like Nobody's Children

If you loved Nobody's Children, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#2
Doubt

Doubt

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student....

#3
Novitiate

Novitiate

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church....

#4
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

2007★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...

#5
Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to ...

#6
The Children's Train

The Children's Train

2024★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nobody's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty....

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