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Movies Like Perfectionist

If you liked Perfectionist (1951), a drama movie directed by Yves Ciampi, 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. 1Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  2. 2Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

    Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

  3. 3Dad

    Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…

  4. 4Something the Lord Made

    Something the Lord Made (2004)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

  5. 5Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…

  6. 6The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who…

  7. 7What Maisie Knew

    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. 8This Is Our Land

    This Is Our Land (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political…

  9. 9Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  10. 10The Last Woman

    The Last Woman (1976)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

  11. 11Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies (1996)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

  12. 12Oscar and the Lady in Pink

    Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except…

  13. 13I Never Sang for My Father

    I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

  14. 14The Son

    The Son (2002)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

  15. 15The Rapture

    The Rapture (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup.

  16. 16Céline

    Céline (1992)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized…

  17. 17A Bramble House Christmas

    A Bramble House Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…

  18. 18Gigi & Nate

    Gigi & Nate (2022)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

  19. 19Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…

  20. 20Nothing to Lose

    Nothing to Lose (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    She gave everything to become a mother, so when her young son falls ill, Jada will stop at nothing to find a donor and save him — no matter the cost.

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