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Movies Like One-Handed

If you liked One-Handed (2017), a movie directed by C.B. Liffer and Elle McLemore, 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. 1Doing Life

    Doing Life (2026)

    ★ 7.8/10

    A single mother and an incarcerated man forge an unlikely bond through heartfelt letters, unlocking a door to redemption, hope and love against all odds.

  2. 2Bad Moms

    Bad Moms (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10

    When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.

  3. 3Thirteen

    Thirteen (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…

  4. 4Jerry Maguire

    Jerry Maguire (1996)

    ★ 7/10

    Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has…

  5. 5Postcards 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.

  6. 6The Dirt

    The Dirt (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10

    The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.

  7. 7Erin Brockovich

    Erin Brockovich (2000)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses…

  8. 8Wasp

    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…

  9. 9What We Hide

    What We Hide (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After their mother dies of an overdose, two sisters hide her body to avoid being separated by the foster system, but as their secret threatens to unravel, they must confront the consequences of their desperate choice.

  10. 10Babes

    Babes (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

  11. 11Vicious

    Vicious (2025)

    ★ 6/10

    When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

  12. 12It Feeds

    It Feeds (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.

  13. 13Lazareth

    Lazareth (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    Lee is an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.

  14. 14Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle

    Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Maggie, a single mom has to balance between her career and her son, Jordan. Jordan finds a tutor named Casey to help him at school, and Casey becomes like a father figure. Will the three of them find happiness and love…

  15. 15Losing Isaiah

    Losing Isaiah (1995)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted…

  16. 16The 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.

  17. 17Ballistic

    Ballistic (2026)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.

  18. 18Gia

    Gia (1998)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.

  19. 19Four Good Days

    Four Good Days (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

  20. 20The Crush

    The Crush (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

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