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10 Best Movies Like Deception: A Mother’s Secret

If you loved Deception: A Mother’s Secret, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#2
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#3
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#6
Return to Zero

Return to Zero

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deception: A Mother’s Secret for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child....

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