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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.

  1. 1Father Mother Sister Brother

    Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

  2. 2This Is Where I Leave You

    This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When 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…

  3. 3Suncoast

    Suncoast (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10

    While 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.

  4. 4If Anything Happens I Love You

    If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

  5. 5The Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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.

  6. 6My Life Without Me

    My Life Without Me (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A 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.

  7. 7His Three Daughters

    His Three Daughters (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

  8. 8The Shack

    The Shack (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

  9. 9Don't Look Now

    Don't Look Now (1973)

    ★ 6.9/10

    While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

  10. 10Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.

  11. 11My Mom Jayne

    My Mom Jayne (2025)

    ★ 8/10

    Through 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…

  12. 12Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A 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…

  13. 13All of Us Strangers

    All of Us Strangers (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10

    One 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.

  14. 14Hamnet

    Hamnet (2025)

    ★ 7.7/10

    The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

  15. 15Collateral Beauty

    Collateral Beauty (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Retreating 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…

  16. 16The Meddler

    The Meddler (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    With 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…

  17. 17Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

    ★ 8.1/10

    In 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…

  18. 18Sometimes I Think About Dying

    Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Fran 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…

  19. 19Ghostlight

    Ghostlight (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10

    When 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…

  20. 20Life in a Day

    Life in a Day (2011)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A 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.

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