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10 Best Movies Like The Middle Distance

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

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#1
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#4
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Middle Distance 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
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#6
That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun

2009★ 6.7

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

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

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