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

Declaration of War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except...

Tigertail
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

Stillwater
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit....

The Minister
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

The Scapegoat
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paternal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
There is something strange - some would even say abnormal - about the Malaussène family. But if you take a closer look, no one could be happier than this cheerfully chaotic family,...