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10 Best Movies Like The Tenderness

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

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#1
And the Band Played On

And the Band Played On

1993★ 6.5

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

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it....

#2
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#3
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

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

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#5
Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie

1999★ 7.4

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

A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and soci...

#6
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

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