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Movies that feel like Like Father, Like Son (2013)

If you loved Like Father, Like Son, the closest films we have are Boyhood (2014), Leave No Trace (2018) and Our Little Sister (2015). All three share Like Father, Like Son's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Philo and AMC Plus Apple TV channel and others, checked against today's data.

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Hirokazu Kore-edacontemplativewistful

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Boyhood
2014 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9drama

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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Leave No Trace
2018 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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Our Little Sister
2015 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6drama

Hirokazu Kore-eda working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the wistfulness that defines Like Father, Like Son

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 Β· dir. Stephen Chbosky
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.9drama

Wistful drama, and it commits to that

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

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Mysterious Skin
2005 Β· dir. Gregg Araki
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.6drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

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Aftersun
2022 Β· dir. Charlotte Wells
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama

Wistfulness is the shared currency

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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Dead Poets Society
1989 Β· dir. Peter Weir
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8.1drama

The same drama instincts

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 1980s show

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

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The Hunt
2012 Β· dir. Thomas Vinterberg
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.3drama

Both circle parents and children and father

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

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Short Term 12
2013 Β· dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9drama

Parents and children sits at the heart of each

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

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The Social Network
2010 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8drama

Drama approached the same way

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

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Moonlight
2016 Β· dir. Barry Jenkins
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Marriage Story
2019 Β· dir. Noah Baumbach
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama

Both are drama through and through

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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