Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Mamma

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

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#1
Grace Unplugged

Grace Unplugged

2013★ 5.9

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

A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUG...

#2
A Time for Dancing

A Time for Dancing

2002★ 6.7

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

Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer....

#3
Hounddog

Hounddog

2008★ 6.4

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

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley....

#4
Zeta: Una Storia Hip-Hop

Zeta: Una Storia Hip-Hop

2016★ 6.2

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

In a Rome divided between the city center and the suburbs, rich and poor, famous and not, Alex, Gaia, and Marco are three friends in their early twenties who dream of escaping the ...

#5
Too Late Blues

Too Late Blues

1961★ 6.5

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

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him t...

#6
Honeydripper

Honeydripper

2007★ 5.9

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

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort ...

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