Movies Like As They Made Us
If you liked As They Made Us (2022), a drama and romance movie directed by Mayim Bialik, 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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Parenthood (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaThe story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in…
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaFresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and…
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Wildflower (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaThe story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
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His Three Daughters (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyEmotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.
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Remember Me (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceStill reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as…
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedyWhen their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
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My Life Without Me (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaRoyal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently…
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Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaWhen Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled…
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This Christmas (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaThis year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is…
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Wander Darkly (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and dramaNew parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
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August: Osage County (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaAn intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother…
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Captain Fantastic (2016)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and comedyDeep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that…
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Doing Life (2026)
★ 7.8/10Also romance and dramaA single mother and an incarcerated man forge an unlikely bond through heartfelt letters, unlocking a door to redemption, hope and love against all odds.
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Petulia (1968)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceDr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's…
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Shiva Baby (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaCollege student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
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Disobedience (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceNew York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction…
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Sweetie (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyThe buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten…
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedyAn aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
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Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceA young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.