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10 Best Movies Like Tough Love

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

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#1
Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

2018★ 7.6

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

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to metha...

#2
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

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

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#3
The Florida Project

The Florida Project

2017★ 7.4

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

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults aro...

#4
Moonlight

Moonlight

2016★ 7.4

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

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of fallin...

#5
Four Good Days

Four Good Days

2021★ 6.8

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

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse....

#6
Manic

Manic

2001★ 6.9

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

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motle...

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