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10 Best Movies Like The Homecoming

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

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#1
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#2
Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

2004★ 7.3

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

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead ...

#3
Nil by Mouth

Nil by Mouth

1997★ 6.9

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

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is...

#4
The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle

2017★ 7.1

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

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her ...

#5
Rocks

Rocks

2019★ 6.6

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

15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and...

#6
May December

May December

2023★ 6.6

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

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their pas...

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