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Movies Like The Audition

If you liked The Audition (1990), a movie directed by Anna Campion, 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 Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

  2. 2The Souvenir

    The Souvenir (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

  3. 3Mommie Dearest

    Mommie Dearest (1981)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

  4. 4Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

    Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.

  5. 5I Could Never Be Your Woman

    I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.

  6. 6Madeline's Madeline

    Madeline's Madeline (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their…

  7. 7Janet Planet

    Janet Planet (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10

    In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all…

  8. 8Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  9. 9Palm Trees and Power Lines

    Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…

  10. 10Love You to Death

    Love You to Death (2019)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.

  11. 11The Souvenir: Part II

    The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately…

  12. 12Tuesday

    Tuesday (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

  13. 13Wasp

    Wasp (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…

  14. 14Postcards from the Edge

    Postcards from the Edge (1990)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

  15. 15Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

    ★ 6/10

    In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

  16. 16Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10

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

  17. 17LOL

    LOL (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's…

  18. 18What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10

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

  19. 19In a World...

    In a World... (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to…

  20. 20Stories We Tell

    Stories We Tell (2012)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events…

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