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Movies Like A Dog Barking at the Moon

If you liked A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019), a drama movie directed by Lisa Zi Xiang, 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. 1Die My Love

    Die My Love (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…

  2. 2Bird

    Bird (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

  3. 3Inheritance

    Inheritance (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.

  4. 4Hellion

    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…

  5. 5Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  6. 6The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind…

  7. 7Yi Yi

    Yi Yi (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual…

  8. 8May December

    May December (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

  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 Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

  11. 11Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  12. 12Mothers' 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…

  13. 13Buddha Mountain

    Buddha Mountain (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.

  14. 14Skin

    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.

  15. 15Days

    Days (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

  16. 16The Glass House

    The Glass House (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the…

  17. 17Broken

    Broken (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

  18. 18The Joy Luck Club

    The Joy Luck Club (1993)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

  19. 19Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  20. 20A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey (1961)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her…

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