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Movies Like Family

If you liked Family (2001), a movie directed by Phie Ambo and Sami Saif, 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. 1Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  2. 2Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  3. 3Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    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…

  4. 4The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  5. 5Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  6. 6The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  7. 7Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  8. 8Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  9. 9Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  10. 10Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  11. 11I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  12. 12Come Away

    Come Away (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…

  13. 13TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  14. 14Hideaways

    Hideaways (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother…

  15. 15Tortilla Soup

    Tortilla Soup (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

  16. 16Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus

    Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10

    ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.

  17. 17Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.

  18. 18Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

    Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.

  19. 19Tuesday

    Tuesday (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

  20. 20In the Realms of the Unreal

    In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…

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