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10 Best Movies Like God Only Knows

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

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#1
Wander Darkly

Wander Darkly

2020★ 6.0

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

New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in ord...

#2
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to God Only Knows 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...

#4
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#6
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

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

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

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