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10 Best Movies Like True Mothers

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

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#1
Like Dandelion Dust

Like Dandelion Dust

2009★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Mothers 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...

#2
Mother and Child

Mother and Child

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Mothers 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...

#3
Losing Isaiah

Losing Isaiah

1995★ 6.5

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

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the ba...

#4
What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012★ 6.0

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

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-...

#5
A Home of Our Own

A Home of Our Own

1993★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Mothers 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...

#6
Lion

Lion

2016★ 8.0

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

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 ye...

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