Movies Like The Middle of a Lake
If you liked The Middle of a Lake (2017), a drama movie directed by Guillaume Mainguet, 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.
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaGrieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into…
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Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaIn 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Reservation Road (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaTwo fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in…
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Tom at the Farm (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
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Street Flow 3 (2026)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaGrieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
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Lilting (2014)
★ 7/10Also dramaA 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.
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It's Only the End of the World (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaLouis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
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Good One (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaOn a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
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Magnolia (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaOn one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…
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Blackbird (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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Juliette in Spring (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaJuliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly…
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA 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.
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Don't Make Me Go (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Black or White (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
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August Rush (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaEvan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…
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Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaEstranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
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Winter Boy (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaLucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a…
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In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAfter a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.