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10 Best Movies Like Father and Son

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#2
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#3
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#4
My Joy

My Joy

2010★ 6.3

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

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!

2004★ 6.5

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

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van ...

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