Movies Like This Is No Time for Romance
If you liked This Is No Time for Romance (1967), a drama movie directed by Fernand Dansereau, 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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Young Mothers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaHoused in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
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The Nest (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaRory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…
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Chaos (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…
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Between Two Worlds (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaMarianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry…
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Tuesday (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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Angel Face (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses…
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The Cage (1975)
★ 6/10Also dramaThe story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the…
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Herself (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaStruggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA 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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Malabar Princess (2004)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy's mother died.
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Janet Planet (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaIn rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all…
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Last Summer (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaOne summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaMélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world…
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My Zoe (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIsabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle…
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA 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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Perfect Nanny (2019)
★ 6/10Also dramaWhen Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume her activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they hire Louise, who…
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Juliette in Spring (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaJuliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly…
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Goodbye June (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFour siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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My Little Princess (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaYoung Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of…
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Things in Their Season (1974)
★ 10/10Also dramaThe son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.