Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like What They Had

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

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#1
Tuesday

Tuesday

2024★ 6.8

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

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird....

#2
My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003★ 6.1

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

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness....

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What They Had 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...

#4
Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup

2001★ 6.3

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

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life....

#5
The Winter Guest

The Winter Guest

1997★ 6.4

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

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth, travels to...

#6
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What They Had 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....

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