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10 Best Movies Like The Ties That Bind Us

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

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#1
Mother and Child

Mother and Child

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ties That Bind Us 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...

#2
A Home of Our Own

A Home of Our Own

1993★ 6.9

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

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all...

#3
Like Dandelion Dust

Like Dandelion Dust

2009★ 6.9

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

Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family a...

#4
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

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

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

#5
In Safe Hands

In Safe Hands

2018★ 7.4

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

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfa...

#6
Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery

2014★ 6.2

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

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. N...

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