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10 Best Movies Like In Her Place

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

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#1
Mother and Child

Mother and Child

2009★ 6.6

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

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopte...

#2
Juno

Juno

2007★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In Her Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child....

#3
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In Her Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

#4
Like Dandelion Dust

Like Dandelion Dust

2009★ 6.9

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

Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family a...

#5
Short Term 12

Short Term 12

2013★ 7.8

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

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior b...

#6
Any Day Now

Any Day Now

2012★ 7.0

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

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangemen...

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