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10 Best Movies Like Sunday's Children

If you loved Sunday's Children, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Paradise

Paradise

1991★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl....

#2
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

#3
Janet Planet

Janet Planet

2024★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, th...

#4
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

#5
September

September

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently ar...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sunday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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