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10 Best Movies Like The Professional Parent

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Professional Parent 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...

#3
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#4
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

#5
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#6
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

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