Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like A Simple Heart

If you loved A Simple Heart, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for A Simple Heart.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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, an...

#2
Chaos

Chaos

2001★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, ...

#3
Declaration of War

Declaration of War

2011★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except...

#4
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

#5
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

#6
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Simple Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 convicte...

Advertisement