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Movies that feel like Mommy (2014)

If you loved Mommy, the closest films we have are Like Father, Like Son (2013), The Florida Project (2017) and Leave No Trace (2018). All three share Mommy's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Xavier Dolancontemplativedreamlikewistful

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8drama

One thread runs through both: parents and children

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Mommy

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.

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The Florida Project
2017 Β· dir. Sean Baker
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6drama

Two things both keep coming back to: growing up and single mother

The difference: None of the dream logic Mommy is built on

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

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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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 Β· dir. Pat Boonnitipat
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9drama

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Common ground: karaoke

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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Malena
2000 Β· dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
πŸ… 54%β˜… 7.4drama

Wistful drama in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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The Boy and the Beast
2015 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.6action Β· adventure Β· animation

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children

The difference: Leans harder into action than Mommy does

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

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Biutiful
2010 Β· dir. Alejandro G. IΓ±Γ‘rritu
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.4drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

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It's Only the End of the World
2016 Β· dir. Xavier Dolan
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.8drama

Xavier Dolan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

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House of Hummingbird
2019 Β· dir. Kim Bora
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

Both sit in the same wistful register

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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Rebel Without a Cause
1955 Β· dir. Nicholas Ray
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6drama

Both are drama through and through

The difference: 59 years apart, and the 1950s show

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

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