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10 Best Movies Like Break the Cycle

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

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#1
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#2
Boyhood

Boyhood

2014★ 7.5

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

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, ...

#3
Dad

Dad

1989★ 6.4

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

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever befor...

#4
The Keeping Hours

The Keeping Hours

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Break the Cycle for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an auth...

#5
Parenthood

Parenthood

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Break the Cycle for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the famil...

#6
Waves

Waves

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Break the Cycle for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are ev...

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