Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Home for the Weekend

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

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#1
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#2
Stopped on Track

Stopped on Track

2011★ 6.9

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

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable...

#3
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home for the Weekend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#4
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#5
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#6
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

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

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

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