Movies Like Friend's Mother 2017: The Day My Friend Wasn't Home

If you liked Friend's Mother 2017: The Day My Friend Wasn't Home (2017), a family movie directed by 이진, 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
Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also family
A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
2
The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also family
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
3
Burn Your Maps (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also family
A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.
4
Adventures of Dally and Spanky (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also family
A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.
5
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also family
George and The Man In The Yellow Hat are having a merry time counting down to Christmas. But neither can decide what to give each other. Will they find the answers before Christmas morning?
6
My Spy The Eternal City (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also family
JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
7
Preacher's Kid (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.
8
Sarafina! (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also family
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
9
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the…
10
An American Rhapsody (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also family
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has…
11
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also family
At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
12
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
★ 7/10Also family
When the lovely Princess Parisa is shrunken by wicked Sokurah the Magician, Sinbad must embark on a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
13
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also family
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who…
14
Twin Sitters (1994)
★ 6.3/10Also family
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
15
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
★ 7/10Also family
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different…
16
My Science Project (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also family
His high school teacher issues an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So Mike Harlan scavenges a military base's junk pile for a suitable gizmo. He finds one... and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power…
17
Troop Zero (2019)
★ 7/10Also family
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie…
18
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
★ 6.6/10Also family
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly…
19
My Brother's Keeper (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also family
Returning war veteran SFC Travis Fox has one more battle to fight – PTSD. Following an improvised explosive device attack that killed his best friend and their entire Ranger platoon, Travis returns to his hometown to…
20
Will (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also family
Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a public school in the south of England since his father Gareth is emotionally unable to care for him following the death…