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10 Best Movies Like Wakefield

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

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#1
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

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

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#2
A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence

1974★ 7.8

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

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happi...

#3
Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

2012★ 5.9

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

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce....

#4
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#5
Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

2019★ 6.6

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

When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her...

#6
Infinitely Polar Bear

Infinitely Polar Bear

2014★ 6.6

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

A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming tas...

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