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Movies Like A Family Like Many Others

If you liked A Family Like Many Others (1949), a drama movie directed by Alejandro Galindo, 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. 1The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind…

  2. 2Boyhood

    Boyhood (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his…

  3. 3I'll Be Home for Christmas

    I'll Be Home for Christmas (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gracie, her adorable and precocious, eight-year old daughter. But when…

  4. 4A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

  5. 5Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  6. 6The Gift

    The Gift (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

  7. 7Trumbo

    Trumbo (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

  8. 8The Color Purple

    The Color Purple (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of…

  9. 9Radio Flyer

    Radio Flyer (1992)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands…

  10. 10Since You Went Away

    Since You Went Away (1944)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

  11. 11C'mon C'mon

    C'mon C'mon (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.

  12. 12The Visit

    The Visit (1964)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays…

  13. 13Dad

    Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…

  14. 14One & Two

    One & Two (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    In an isolated farmhouse, located in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by a mysterious wooden wall, Zac and Eva, two siblings gifted with extraordinary abilities, endure every day the wrath of their strict father…

  15. 15House of Strangers

    House of Strangers (1949)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business…

  16. 16Belfast

    Belfast (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a…

  17. 17The Little Foxes

    The Little Foxes (1941)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

  18. 18Armageddon Time

    Armageddon Time (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

  19. 19Joseph

    Joseph (1995)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which…

  20. 20Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…

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