Movies Like A Woman in the Sun

If you liked A Woman in the Sun, a drama movie directed by Julia Cox, 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
Janet Planet (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all…
2
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
3
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.
4
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.
5
The Lost Daughter (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
6
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…
7
What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…
8
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
★ 7/10Also drama
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.
9
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
10
God's Creatures (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
11
The Whales of August (1987)
★ 7/10Also drama
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
12
Like Father (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
When a workaholic young executive is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers…
13
Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
14
My Zoe (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle…
15
Skin (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
16
The Road Dance (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
17
Tuesday (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
18
Paradise (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
19
Love You to Death (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
20
Eve's Bayou (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.