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10 Best Movies Like The Laundress

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

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#1
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#2
After We Fell

After We Fell

2021★ 7.0

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

Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin...

#3
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002★ 6.1

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

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let g...

#4
Anywhere but Here

Anywhere but Here

1999★ 6.1

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

Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy Leagu...

#5
Stepmom

Stepmom

1998★ 7.2

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

Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jac...

#6
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

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