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10 Best Movies Like Mother Water

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

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#1
Memories of Matsuko

Memories of Matsuko

2006★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Water for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy....

#2
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Water for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#3
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

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

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#4
Tokyo!

Tokyo!

2008★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Water for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands tr...

#5
Hospitalité

Hospitalité

2011★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Water for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a...

#6
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mother Water for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

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