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10 Best Movies Like Real Mother

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

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#1
I Believe in Unicorns

I Believe in Unicorns

2015★ 6.3

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

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter....

#2
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

#3
Mother and Child

Mother and Child

2009★ 6.6

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

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopte...

#4
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973★ 6.0

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

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel h...

#5
Splendor

Splendor

1999★ 6.1

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

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy ...

#6
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

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