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Movies Like Daybreak

If you liked Daybreak (2025), a drama movie directed by Monet Debose, 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. 1If Anything Happens I Love You

    If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

  2. 2Rabbit Hole

    Rabbit Hole (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

  3. 3Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  4. 4Prayers for Bobby

    Prayers for Bobby (2009)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much…

  5. 5Father Mother Sister Brother

    Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

  6. 6The Shack

    The Shack (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

  7. 7The Straight Story

    The Straight Story (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in…

  8. 8Black or White

    Black or White (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

  9. 9Boy Erased

    Boy Erased (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…

  10. 10The Tree of Life

    The Tree of Life (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a…

  11. 11Versa

    Versa (2025)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    A young couple looking to start a family who experience emotions—from grief and loss to ultimate joy—as they embark on an ethereal, abstract, and imaginative cosmic dance of life.

  12. 12Things We Lost in the Fire

    Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

  13. 13Mr. 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.

  14. 14A Question of Faith

    A Question of Faith (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

  15. 15The Human Voice

    The Human Voice (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

  16. 16A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

  17. 17The Hours

    The Hours (2002)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together…

  18. 18Interiors

    Interiors (1978)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment…

  19. 19C'mon C'mon

    C'mon C'mon (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.

  20. 20The Secret Life of Bees

    The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…

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