If You Liked May December, Watch These Next
Finished May December (2023) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like May December, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.Mammal(2016)
6.3DramaAlso drama
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
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3.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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4.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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5.Grandview, U.S.A.(1984)
5.8DramaAlso drama
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of…
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6.Gimme Shelter(2013)
6.6DramaAlso drama
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
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7.The Strange Love of Martha Ivers(1946)
7.1DramaThrillerAlso drama
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam,…
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8.Die My Love(2025)
6.1DramaAlso drama
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt…
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9.This Boy's Life(1993)
7.1DramaAlso drama
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
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10.American Beauty(1999)
8.0DramaAlso drama
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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11.Marriage Story(2019)
7.7DramaAlso drama
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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12.The Chronology of Water(2025)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
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13.Boy A(2008)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local…
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15.Fish Tank(2009)
6.9DramaAlso drama
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
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16.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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17.Blonde(2022)
5.9DramaAlso drama
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
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18.Careful What You Wish For(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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19.Rambling Rose(1991)
6.2DramaAlso drama
In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
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20....And Justice for All(1979)
7.1DramaAlso drama
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
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