Movies Like My Father's Secrets
If you liked My Father's Secrets (2022), a animation and drama movie directed by Véra Belmont, 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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The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaOnce upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby…
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Iron Boy (2026)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaIn rural France, 10-year-old Christophe tries to live up to his rigid and distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse without warning — on the tractor, at school, at dinner…
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The Breadwinner (2017)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and dramaA headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyThe true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Light of the World (2025)
★ 8.9/10Also animation and dramaIt's 30 AD and everyone is expectantly awaiting the coming Messiah. While Jesus isn't exactly what they imagined, there is something special about this man. Soon, John, James, Andrew, Peter, and others begin to follow…
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The Lion King (1994)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and dramaYoung lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid…
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The Boy in the Woods (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyThe remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and historyA thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage…
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No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaEarly 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto…
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The Lion King (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and animationSimba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his…
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The Swallows of Kabul (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaSummer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Bambi II (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and dramaReturn to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn on his own. But in the adventure of a lifetime, the proud parent discovers there is much he can…
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I Lost My Body (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaA story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
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Marona's Fantastic Tale (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaMarona, an innocent and empathetic little female dog, remembers the life she has shared with different masters, whom she has loved unconditionally.
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Fanny's Journey (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyFanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the…
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Ethel & Ernest (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaThis hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through…
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaThe unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and historyThe true story of the most decorated dog in American military history - Sgt. Stubby - and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyThe commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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One Life (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also history and dramaBritish stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the…