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Movies Like The Inheritance

If you liked The Inheritance (1978), a movie directed by Ate de Jong, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Father of the Bride Part II

    Father of the Bride Part II (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like…

  2. 23 Men and a Little Lady

    3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most…

  3. 3The Christmas Cure

    The Christmas Cure (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's…

  4. 4Black or White

    Black or White (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

  5. 5The Last Song

    The Last Song (2010)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

  6. 6All That Heaven Allows

    All That Heaven Allows (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club…

  7. 7The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

  8. 8The Shift

    The Shift (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man finds himself banished to a parallel, tyrannical Earth, where he fights to get back to the woman he loves.

  9. 9Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  10. 10Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

  11. 11The Hanging Tree

    The Hanging Tree (1959)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides…

  12. 12Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  13. 13People Will Talk

    People Will Talk (1951)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.

  14. 14Snowball Express

    Snowball Express (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and…

  15. 15Miss You Already

    Miss You Already (2015)

    ★ 7.4/10

    The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

  16. 16Good One

    Good One (2024)

    ★ 6.6/10

    On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

  17. 17Doctor Strange

    Doctor Strange (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Dr. Stephen Strange embarks on a wondrous journey to the heights of a Tibetan mountain, where he seeks healing at the feet of the mysterious Ancient One.

  18. 18Rock-a-Bye Baby

    Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.

  19. 19Thunder Road

    Thunder Road (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

  20. 20Extraordinary Measures

    Extraordinary Measures (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the…

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