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10 Best Movies Like Dear Mother

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

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#1
Love Song for Tough Guys

Love Song for Tough Guys

2021★ 6.0

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

In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the drivi...

#2
The Tobacconist

The Tobacconist

2018★ 6.4

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

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by worki...

#3
21 Nights with Pattie

21 Nights with Pattie

2015★ 5.7

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

During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother,...

#4
Old Fashioned

Old Fashioned

2021★ 5.3

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

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraord...

#5
Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet

2021★ 6.0

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

Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable...

#6
The Great Silence

The Great Silence

2021★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dear Mother for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the famil...