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10 Best Movies Like Devoted Mother

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

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#1
The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us

1999★ 7.1

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

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local ...

#2
3 Faces

3 Faces

2018★ 6.7

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

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing enc...

#3
Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More…

1992★ 7.7

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

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In...

#4
Septembers of Shiraz

Septembers of Shiraz

2015★ 5.9

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

In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolut...

#5
Tehran Taboo

Tehran Taboo

2017★ 7.1

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

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with stric...

#6
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 7.9

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

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf...

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