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

The Photographer of Mauthausen
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of o...

Butterfly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to differe...

The Endless Trench
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisa...

Under Fire
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua....

Lion's Den
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jai...

The Official Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Mothers for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the d...