Movies Like When It Melts
If you liked When It Melts (2023), a drama movie directed by Veerle Baetens, 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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'night, Mother (1986)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.
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Georgetown (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaUlrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected…
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Kisses (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaTwo kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAfter a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…
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Amber Alert (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA ride-share turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after it follows a car fitting the description of an AMBER Alert.
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Topside (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaDeep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are…
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Snowtown (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaBased on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
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2:37 (2006)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA contemporary, ensemble drama that tells the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal…
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Boys Don't Cry (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIt's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old…
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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Knightriders (1981)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their so-called king's delusions of grandeur.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaNothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
★ 7/10Also dramaUndiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.
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L.I.E. (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaWith his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the…
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
★ 8/10Also dramaA troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Echo Valley (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaKate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.
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Mexicali (2026)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaA former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.