Movies Like MA / DDY

If you liked MA / DDY (2015), a movie directed by Devon Kirkpatrick, 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
Elena Undone (2010)
★ 6.9/10
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
2
If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
3
I Can't Think Straight (2008)
★ 7.5/10
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla…
4
A Perfect Ending (2012)
★ 6.2/10
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect…
5
Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7/10
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
6
Lilting (2014)
★ 7/10
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
7
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
★ 7.5/10
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…
8
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
9
Restless (2011)
★ 6.5/10
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
10
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)
★ 6.8/10
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way…
11
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
★ 6.9/10
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
12
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10
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
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
★ 6.1/10
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
14
Eternity (2025)
★ 7.1/10
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades…
15
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
★ 7.2/10
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
16
Nothing But a Man (1964)
★ 7.4/10
Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.
17
The Last Repair Shop (2024)
★ 7.5/10
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four…
18
3 Generations (2016)
★ 6.4/10
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
19
Other People (2016)
★ 6.4/10
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the…
20
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
★ 6.2/10
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.