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Movies Like The Argument

If you liked The Argument (2011), a drama movie directed by Clara Aranovich, 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. 1Higher Ground

    Higher Ground (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, a tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith, love, and trust - in human relationships as…

  2. 2Wasp

    Wasp (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…

  3. 3Stillwater

    Stillwater (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers…

  4. 4War Room

    War Room (2015)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful…

  5. 5A Love Song for Bobby Long

    A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

  6. 6Double Mommy

    Double Mommy (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins. When Ryan's mother demands a paternity test, they find out that…

  7. 7Tuesday

    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.

  8. 8Damage

    Damage (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

  9. 9The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    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…

  10. 10Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    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…

  11. 11Hours

    Hours (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

  12. 12The Chronology of Water

    The Chronology of Water (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.

  13. 13The Forge

    The Forge (2024)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum – to…

  14. 14My Zoe

    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. 15Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    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…

  16. 16Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  17. 17What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

  18. 18Skin

    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.

  19. 19The Poker House

    The Poker House (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

  20. 20Hounddog

    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.

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