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10 Best Movies Like The Midwife

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

#1
Ceasefire

Ceasefire

2017★ 6.2

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

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta ...

#2
Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine

2010★ 6.9

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

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from t...

#3
Crime on a Summer Morning

Crime on a Summer Morning

1965★ 6.5

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

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fo...

#4
Solitaire

Solitaire

2017★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Midwife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engag...

#5
Well

Well

2016★ 5.5

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

At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a young man arrives to meet his father he hasn't seen for 30 years. On the same day, a van with four prostitutes breaks down at the very ...

#6
A Happy Event

A Happy Event

2011★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Midwife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. W...