If You Liked Mothers and Daughters, Watch These Next
Finished Mothers and Daughters (2016) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Mothers and Daughters, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.A Mouthful of Air(2021)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
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3.Bastard Out of Carolina(1996)
7.1DramaAlso 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 her last chance.
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4.The Joy Luck Club(1993)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
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5.The Lost Daughter(2021)
6.4DramaAlso drama
A 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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6.The Safety of Objects(2002)
6.5DramaAlso drama
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new…
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7.Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus(2006)
6.1DramaHistoryAlso drama
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires…
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8.Mothers' Instinct(2024)
6.8ThrillerDramaAlso drama
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
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10.Goodbye June(2025)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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11.Nocturnal Animals(2016)
7.4DramaThrillerAlso drama
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
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12.A Dry White Season(1989)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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13.The Florida Project(2017)
7.4DramaAlso drama
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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14.Hands of Stone(2016)
6.6DramaAlso drama
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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15.Effie Gray(2014)
6.0DramaAlso drama
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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16.20th Century Women(2016)
7.3DramaAlso drama
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home…
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17.A Thousand and One(2023)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a…
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18.Strange Weather(2016)
5.9DramaAlso 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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19.The Fallout(2021)
7.5DramaAlso 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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