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

Nowhere Special
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is give...

Secrets & Lies
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

Evelyn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the child...

The Deep End of the Ocean
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated....

Anne of Green Gables
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead....

The Search
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to These Wilder Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him....