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Movies Like The Winkles

If you liked The Winkles (2017), a drama movie directed by Alice Vial, 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. 1My 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…

  2. 2Tuesday

    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.

  3. 3Hot Milk

    Hot Milk (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a…

  4. 4Petite Maman

    Petite Maman (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical…

  5. 5Aftersun

    Aftersun (2022)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…

  6. 6Holy 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…

  7. 7Cargo

    Cargo (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.

  8. 8The Greatest

    The Greatest (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support…

  9. 9Eve's Bayou

    Eve's Bayou (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

  10. 10Blue Heron

    Blue Heron (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.

  11. 11Hellion

    Hellion (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…

  12. 12Angel Face

    Angel Face (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses…

  13. 13Like Father

    Like Father (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    When a workaholic young executive is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers…

  14. 14Hounddog

    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.

  15. 15I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

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

  16. 16Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…

  17. 17My Little Princess

    My Little Princess (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of…

  18. 18Hateship Loveship

    Hateship Loveship (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.

  19. 19Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    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…

  20. 20The 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.

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