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10 Best Movies Like Single Father

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

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#1
We Live in Time

We Live in Time

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Father for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance....

#2
This Boy's Life

This Boy's Life

1993★ 7.1

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

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their l...

#3
Claudine

Claudine

1974★ 7.0

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

Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white communit...

#4
Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle

Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Father for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Maggie, a single mom has to balance between her career and her son, Jordan. Jordan finds a tutor named Casey to help him at school, and Casey becomes like a father figure. Will the...

#5
The Boys Are Back

The Boys Are Back

2009★ 6.3

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

When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects...

#6
The Forge

The Forge

2024★ 8.2

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

19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynt...

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