Movies Like Sabbath
If you liked Sabbath (2020), a movie directed by Joseph Ford, 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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Doing Life (2026)
★ 7.8/10A 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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Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Wasp (2003)
★ 7.2/10Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
★ 6.4/10A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
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Lorelei (2020)
★ 6/10A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
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Twilight (1998)
★ 6.1/10A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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20th Century Women (2016)
★ 7.3/10In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the…
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Baby Blues (2008)
★ 6/10On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
★ 6.7/10An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
★ 6.6/10A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
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Curve (2016)
★ 6.9/10Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
★ 6.6/10Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
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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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Mothers' Instinct (2024)
★ 6.8/10Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…
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Drop (2025)
★ 6.3/10Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as…
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The Uninvited (2009)
★ 6.5/10Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father…
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Diggers (2007)
★ 6/10In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to…
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Beats (2019)
★ 6.7/10An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
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Shadow Dancer (2012)
★ 6/10In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.