Movies Like Soap Opera in Stockwell

If you liked Soap Opera in Stockwell (1973), a movie directed by Tim Aspinall, 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
I'm Your Woman (2020)
★ 5.9/10
A woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
2
Every Secret Thing (2014)
★ 6.2/10
One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another…
3
The Rescuers (1977)
★ 6.8/10
Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.
4
Protector (2026)
★ 8.4/10
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
5
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
★ 6.9/10
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the…
6
Raising Arizona (1987)
★ 7.1/10
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
7
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
★ 7.3/10
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
8
Kidnap (2017)
★ 6.3/10
A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
9
Adventures in Babysitting (2016)
★ 7.2/10
Two teen rival babysitters, Jenny and Lola, team up to hunt down one of their kids who accidentally ran away into the big city without any supervision.
10
Evil Nanny (2016)
★ 5.9/10
A couple hires a live-in nanny to watch the offspring while they work. At first, everything goes perfectly, but when an unsafe incident means the parents no longer want the nanny around, they find out this nanny is…
11
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
★ 6.5/10
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
12
The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018)
★ 6.8/10
Jake Carter and another former Marine, Luke Trapper, join forces to rescue a young kidnapped girl from a gang of international criminals.
13
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
★ 6.6/10
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
14
Trapped (2002)
★ 6.2/10
Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.
15
The Tall Man (2012)
★ 6.1/10
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
16
That Darn Cat! (1965)
★ 6.6/10
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
17
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
18
Uptown Girls (2003)
★ 7.1/10
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what…
19
They Live by Night (1949)
★ 6.8/10
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
20
Icefall (2025)
★ 6.6/10
A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and…