Movies Like Henceforth
If you liked Henceforth (2020), a movie directed by Charlene Jones, 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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Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
★ 6.4/10Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10When 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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Suncoast (2024)
★ 6.7/10While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Following 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.
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My Life Without Me (2003)
★ 6.2/10A 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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His Three Daughters (2024)
★ 6.8/10Emotions 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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The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Don't Look Now (1973)
★ 6.9/10While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
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Heart of a Dog (2015)
★ 6.5/10Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
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My Mom Jayne (2025)
★ 8/10Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and…
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10A 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…
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All of Us Strangers (2023)
★ 7.4/10One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7/10The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
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Collateral Beauty (2016)
★ 7.2/10Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of…
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The Meddler (2016)
★ 5.9/10With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter…
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
★ 8.1/10In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a…
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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)
★ 6.8/10Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way…
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Ghostlight (2024)
★ 7.2/10When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror…
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Life in a Day (2011)
★ 7.2/10A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.