Movies Like The F**king Awful Mess

If you liked The F**king Awful Mess (2018), a movie directed by Ronald J Wright, 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
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
2
Collateral Beauty (2016)
★ 7.2/10
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of…
3
Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7/10
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
4
Waves (2019)
★ 7.4/10
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by…
5
Our Friend (2019)
★ 7.2/10
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
6
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.
7
Reservation Road (2007)
★ 6.5/10
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in…
8
A Man Called Otto (2022)
★ 7.7/10
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
9
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
10
Rabbit Hole (2010)
★ 6.6/10
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
11
The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
12
A Ghost Story (2017)
★ 7.1/10
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and…
13
Love of Your Life (2026)
★ 6.8/10
After a chance encounter sparks a sweeping romance, Maya's future is suddenly upended, sending her on an unexpected journey to love and live again.
14
Restless (2011)
★ 6.5/10
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
15
Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
16
Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
17
The Greatest (2009)
★ 6.2/10
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support…
18
Hope Floats (1998)
★ 6.5/10
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas…
19
Bounce (2000)
★ 5.8/10
Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a…
20
Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7/10
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.