
10 Best Movies Like On Your Lap
If you loved On Your Lap, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

God's Creatures
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-...

Helen
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

Mr. Church
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

Janet Planet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, th...

The Pumpkin Eater
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

Ladybird Ladybird
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Your Lap for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refuge...