If You Liked The Beaver, Watch These Next
Finished The Beaver (2011) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Beaver, most of them are drama.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Helen(2009)
6.5DramaAlso drama
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
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2.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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3.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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4.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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5.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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6.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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7.Lucky Them(2013)
6.0DramaAlso drama
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming…
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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.Hateship Loveship(2014)
5.8DramaAlso drama
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
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13.Bruised(2021)
6.8DramaActionAlso drama
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back…
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14.The Poker House(2008)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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15.The Trials of Cate McCall(2013)
6.4DramaAlso drama
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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16.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(1998)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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17.Alex of Venice(2015)
5.9DramaAlso drama
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
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