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10 Best Movies Like Maternity Blues

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

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#1
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#2
I Vitelloni

I Vitelloni

1953★ 7.6

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

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeles...

#3
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#4
Bad Tales

Bad Tales

2020★ 6.7

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

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illu...

#5
40 Secondi

40 Secondi

2025★ 7.1

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

It explores the tragic events leading up to the murder of 21-year-old Willy Monteiro Duarte, highlighting the intertwining of chance encounters, rivalries, and latent tensions....

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Thou Shalt Not Hate

Thou Shalt Not Hate

2020★ 6.2

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

Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds...

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