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10 Best Movies Like Our Very Own

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

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#1
Four Brothers

Four Brothers

2005★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Our Very Own for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers....

#2
Lion

Lion

2016★ 8.0

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

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 ye...

#3
Like Dandelion Dust

Like Dandelion Dust

2009★ 6.9

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

Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family a...

#4
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#5
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#6
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

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