
10 Best Movies Like Ordinary People
If you loved Ordinary People, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed...

The Prince of Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process....

The Virgin Suicides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents....

Dad
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever befor...

Prayers for Bobby
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling ...

The Sixth Sense
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ordinary People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret....