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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.

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#1
The Photographer of Mauthausen

The Photographer of Mauthausen

2018★ 7.0

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...

#2
Butterfly

Butterfly

1999★ 7.3

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...

#3
The Endless Trench

The Endless Trench

2019★ 6.9

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...

#4
Under Fire

Under Fire

1983★ 6.7

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....

#5
Lion's Den

Lion's Den

2008★ 6.2

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...

#6
The Official Story

The Official Story

1985★ 7.5

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...

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