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10 Best Movies Like Closer to Home

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

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#1
Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family....

#2
Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Divorced couple Georgia and David find themselves on a shared mission: they team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter Lily from making the same mistake they once made 25 ye...

#3
My Family

My Family

1995★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Closer to Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face depo...

#4
Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997★ 6.3

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

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer...

#5
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#6
The Gift

The Gift

2015★ 6.7

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

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin....

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