Movies Like Mother

If you liked Mother (2009), a drama movie directed by Elmir Jukić, 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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   Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

   ★ 7.1/10Also drama

   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…

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   Ararat (2002)

   ★ 6.1/10Also drama

   Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

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   Matriculated (2003)

   ★ 6.6/10Also drama

   The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

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   Strange Weather (2016)

   ★ 5.9/10Also drama

   Years 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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   Goodbye June (2025)

   ★ 6.5/10Also drama

   Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

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   Waiting for Anya (2020)

   ★ 6.3/10Also drama

   During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

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   Reservoir Dogs (1991)

   ★ 7.5/10Also drama

   Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

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   The Fallout (2021)

   ★ 7.5/10Also drama

   In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.

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   If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)

   ★ 7.7/10Also drama

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

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    Ballistic (2026)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    When a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.

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    Hunting Season (2025)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

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    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

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    Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

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    The Secrets We Keep (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

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    A Question of Faith (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

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    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

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    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

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    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

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    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

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    Aningaaq (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and…