Movies like Mothers and Daughters (2016)
The best movies like Mothers and Daughters (2016) are Madly (2016), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) and Berlin, I Love You (2019). If Mothers and Daughters hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCaptain Fantastic (2016)7.9/10 from 7,049 votes
- NewestFather Mother Sister Brother (2025)Released 2025
Madly (2016)
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)
Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBerlin, I Love You (2019)
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
New Year Blues (2021)
Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Family Stone (2005)
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother's Day (2016)
Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome for the Holidays (1995)
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023)
Successful Mary Ann Brubeck adopts a daughter right before Christmas. When bad weather lands her and her new baby stranded in Bethlehem, PA, their only option is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother Joe, a quintessential bachelor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Little Women (2018)
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glass Castle (2017)
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove the Coopers (2015)
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain Fantastic (2016)
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Humans (2021)
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenguin Bloom (2021)
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTully (2018)
Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Norwegian Holiday (2023)
JJ, grieving the loss of her grandmother, jumps at the chance to join a new friend, Henrik, on a trip to Norway to discover her grandmother’s history and look into how she landed a troll figurine from his hometown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Four Christmases (2008)
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisInfinitely Polar Bear (2014)
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 task any easier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKinds of Kindness (2024)
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Little Prayer (2025)
A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having an affair in a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Almost Christmas (2016)
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll My Puny Sorrows (2022)
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Mouthful of Air (2021)
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTuesday (2024)
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
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 and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Joy Luck Club (1993)
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lost Daughter (2021)
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mothers and Daughters?
The closest matches to Mothers and Daughters are Madly (2016), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) and Berlin, I Love You (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mothers and Daughters?
People who watched Mothers and Daughters most often go on to Madly (2016), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) and Berlin, I Love You (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mothers and Daughters?
Captain Fantastic (2016), rated 7.9/10 by 7,049 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mothers and Daughters?
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mothers and Daughters?
Yes: Madly (2016), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) and Berlin, I Love You (2019).
How are movies similar to Mothers and Daughters chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mothers and Daughters, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.