If You Liked Dad, Watch These Next
Finished Dad (1989) 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 Dad, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.I Never Sang for My Father(1970)
6.7DramaAlso drama
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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2.Fluke(1995)
7.0DramaAdventureFamilyAlso drama
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, his memories return, and Thomas realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.
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3.The Great Santini(1979)
6.8DramaAlso drama
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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4.Of Mice and Men(1939)
7.3DramaAlso drama
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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5.Black or White(2015)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
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6.Miracles from Heaven(2016)
7.5FamilyDramaAlso drama
When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists…
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7.Fathers and Daughters(2015)
7.2DramaAlso drama
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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8.The Long, Hot Summer(1958)
7.0DramaAlso drama
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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9.The Glass Castle(2017)
7.1DramaAlso drama
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a…
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11.Cassandra's Dream(2007)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
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12.Nowhere Special(2020)
7.3DramaAlso drama
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible…
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13.The Life of Chuck(2025)
7.3FantasyDramaAlso drama
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
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14.Everybody's Fine(2009)
6.8DramaAlso drama
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his…
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16.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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17.An Unfinished Life(2005)
6.8DramaAlso drama
Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate, and with a granddaughter he's never known. But even as buried anger and accusations…
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18.John Q(2002)
7.2DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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19.Unbroken: Path to Redemption(2018)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
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