Movies Like Our Own
If you liked Our Own (2020), a drama movie directed by Jeanne Leblanc, 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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Palmer (2021)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAfter 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to…
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Ponette (1996)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAfter losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping…
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Softie (2022)
★ 7/10Also dramaTen-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups…
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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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Ordinary Angels (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaInspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.
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Young Mothers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaHoused in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
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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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Like a Son (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaJacques Romand is a history teacher who has lost faith in his vocation. One evening, witnessing a shopkeeper attacked by three young robbers, he catches one of the aggressors, Victor, a 14-year-old Roma boy.
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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The Grand Highway (1987)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaLouis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby…
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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaMélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world…
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Les Indésirables (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.
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Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…
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The Long Absence (1961)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaTherese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to…
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Street Flow 3 (2026)
★ 6/10Also dramaGrieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
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Wild Diamond (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaLiane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her…
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaYoung 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…
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The Color of Lies (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaIn a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions…