Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like You Will Be My Son

If you loved You Will Be My Son, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for You Will Be My Son.

View Review →
#1
Honey 2

Honey 2

2011★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a brush with the law, Maria has returned to her gritty Bronx roots to rebuild her life with nothing but a talent for street dance and a burning ambition to prove herself....

#2
A Kid

A Kid

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Matthieu is a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Mo...

#3
Against All Odds

Against All Odds

1984★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in desperate need of money. Crooked nightclub owner and bookie Jake Wise offers Terry a he...

#4
The Crossing

The Crossing

2012★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the...

#5
Polisse

Polisse

2011★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure...

#6
Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

2004★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Will Be My Son for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world....