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10 Best Movies Like My Father's Son

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

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#1
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son 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
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#5
Mr. Tree

Mr. Tree

2011★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow vill...

#6
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Father's Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

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