Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Promises to Keep

If you loved Promises to Keep, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Black or White

Black or White

2015★ 6.8

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

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life....

#2
A Home of Our Own

A Home of Our Own

1993★ 6.9

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

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all...

#3
Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

2024★ 6.7

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

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to ...

#4
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

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

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#5
The Ledge

The Ledge

2011★ 6.2

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

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills....

#6
Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

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

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours...

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