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Movies Like Widowed Wife: Father-in-law Care

If you liked Widowed Wife: Father-in-law Care (2018), a movie directed by Chastity, 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 10 Years

    The Last 10 Years (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a…

  2. 2Starman

    Starman (1984)

    ★ 6.9/10

    When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

  3. 3The Twilight Samurai

    The Twilight Samurai (2002)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects…

  4. 4The Mourning Forest

    The Mourning Forest (2007)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.

  5. 5Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  6. 6Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

    Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10

    With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought…

  7. 7Samurai Rebellion

    Samurai Rebellion (1967)

    ★ 8.2/10

    The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.

  8. 8My Rainy Days

    My Rainy Days (2009)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A cold and calculating high school student falls in love for the first time with a professor, but he's dying of brain cancer.

  9. 9Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre (2011)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester…

  10. 10Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  11. 11Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

  12. 12In the Land of Women

    In the Land of Women (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live…

  13. 13Pompo the Cinephile

    Pompo the Cinephile (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Operating out of the movie capital "Nyallywood," Pompo has been shooting one B-grade entertainment flick after another that anyone would enjoy. One day, Pompo's "movie buff" assistant Gene spots a new script written by…

  14. 14Restless

    Restless (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

  15. 15The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

  16. 16Millennium Actress

    Millennium Actress (2002)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone…

  17. 17Like Someone in Love

    Like Someone in Love (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty…

  18. 18Avanti!

    Avanti! (1972)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.

  19. 19Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

    Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.

  20. 20Love Letter

    Love Letter (1953)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.

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