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Movies Like A Better Family

If you liked A Better Family (2018), a movie directed by Okechukwu Oku, 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. 1Revolutionary Road

    Revolutionary Road (2008)

    ★ 7/10

    A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

  2. 2Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

  3. 3Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

  4. 4Unfaithful

    Unfaithful (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

  5. 5Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  6. 6The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

  7. 7Cousins

    Cousins (1989)

    ★ 6/10

    When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.

  8. 8Solitary Man

    Solitary Man (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

  9. 9Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  10. 10Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina (1997)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high…

  11. 11The Pillow Book

    The Pillow Book (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by…

  12. 12Effie Gray

    Effie Gray (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

  13. 13Romance & Cigarettes

    Romance & Cigarettes (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval…

  14. 14Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  15. 15Out of Africa

    Out of Africa (1985)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

  16. 16Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  17. 17The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  18. 18Two for the Road

    Two for the Road (1967)

    ★ 7/10

    Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road…

  19. 19Lady and the Tramp

    Lady and the Tramp (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10

    The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owners have a baby and is saved from a pack by Tramp, who tries to show…

  20. 20Take This Waltz

    Take This Waltz (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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