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10 Best Movies Like Yesterday's Children

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

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#1
Gray Matters

Gray Matters

2007★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yesterday's Children for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and danci...

#2
Passport

Passport

2022★ 8.5

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

A rich brat must work together with a “ghetto” tomboy if he wants to recover his stolen passport; or he would miss a flight to a life-changing interview....

#3
One Life

One Life

2023★ 7.8

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

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation ...

#4
Apocalypto

Apocalypto

2006★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yesterday's Children for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppre...

#5
Big Fish

Big Fish

2003★ 7.8

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

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, t...

#6
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yesterday's Children for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from Distri...