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Movies Like Milk & Honey

If you liked Milk & Honey (2025), a drama movie directed by Rachel Leyco, 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 Wonder

    The Wonder (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

  2. 2One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    ★ 8.4/10Also drama

    A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

  3. 3Woman of Straw

    Woman of Straw (1964)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.

  4. 4Return to the Blue Lagoon

    Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

  5. 5Philomena

    Philomena (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

  6. 6I, Daniel Blake

    I, Daniel Blake (2016)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humour, warmth and despair, the…

  7. 7Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry…

  8. 8Aftersun

    Aftersun (2022)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…

  9. 9Trafficked

    Trafficked (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…

  10. 10Return to Sender

    Return to Sender (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled…

  11. 11Mr. Church

    Mr. Church (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    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.

  12. 12Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  13. 13Mean Streets

    Mean Streets (1973)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

  14. 14Hot Milk

    Hot Milk (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a…

  15. 15Room

    Room (2015)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

  16. 16You Can Count on Me

    You Can Count on Me (2000)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

  17. 17Somewhere

    Somewhere (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

  18. 18Blue Miracle

    Blue Miracle (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.

  19. 19Blue Heron

    Blue Heron (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.

  20. 20Rachel Getting Married

    Rachel Getting Married (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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