Movies like A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
The best movies like A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014) are Class (2010), Notes from the Heart Healer (2012) and The Color of Rain (2014). If A Day Late and a Dollar Short hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Help (2011)8.2/10 from 9,417 votes
- NewestThe Nomads (2019)Released 2019
Class (2010)
When a privileged law student gets a homework assignment to help a disadvantaged single mother find—and keep—a job, he learns that some of the greatest lessons aren’t taught in school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Notes from the Heart Healer (2012)
A single young mom forms an unlikely friendship with author Peyton, after a desperate situation forces her to abandon her child on Peyton's doorstep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Color of Rain (2014)
After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Dance at My Wedding (2009)
Just a few weeks before her wedding, dance teacher Cyd Merriman comes face-to-face with the father she never knew. As they deal with the emotional repercussions of his return, they must decide together whether to sell the dance studio that has been in the family for generations to a real estate developer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All We Had (2016)
A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisTemptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBetty and Coretta (2013)
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
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Buy Me (2017)
Katya, a young girl from a good family, a student of philology is awarded a grant to study archives in Paris but instead of heading to Paris she travels to the Arab Emirates to start international modeling career…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story (2016)
Wanda Pratt works tirelessly to raise three children, including future NBA basketball player Kevin Durant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Help (2011)
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Miracle Season (2018)
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTaken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011)
In 2008, New York mother Tiffany Rubin faced every parent's worst nightmare when her six year old son Kobe vanished into thin air. Upon learning that Kobe had been kidnapped by his biological father and taken to South Korea, Tiffany seeks the assistance of American Association for Lost Children representative Mark Miller, who guides her through the arduous process of traveling to Korea, and getting Kobe back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Remember Sunday (2013)
A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly gets to know Gus, the more she's intrigued by him. But she's also mystified. Gus is absent-minded, preoccupied. Is he hiding something? The short answer is: yes. He's reluctant to share with her that since suffering a brain aneurysm, he's totally lost his short-term memory. Every day is a brand new day, his life starts anew. Every day he sees Molly he struggles to remember who she is and what she represents. Every day, he has to fall in love with her all over again.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisPerfect Pie (2002)
On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesca Prine - whose real name is Marie Beck - returns to Marmora, Ontario to sing in a benefit concert. Patsy and Marie were best friends from the time Marie and her family arrived in Marmora when she was ten years old to the time she left Marmora at age fifteen, which was thirty years prior. With the exception of Don Rayford on who Marie had a crush, Patsy was shy Marie's only friend in Marmora. However, Marie and Patsy have not been in touch since due to issues that drove Marie out of town at the time. Those issues include Marie being physically abused by her alcoholic mother, but most specifically what happened the evening of the Sadie Hawkins dance - where Don accompanied Marie - and post dance down by the railroad tracks. Marie and Patsy's reunion may not be able to endure the thirty years of silence and the events of that night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Russell Girl (2008)
Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
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Firelight (2012)
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
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Good Deeds (2012)
For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like this12 Days of Giving (2017)
A photographer uses his cash prize to anonymously give gifts, sparking a change in the community.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack to School Mom (2015)
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old university, she becomes close friends with her popular and charming "peer tutor" -- only to learn that he is actually the son she gave up 20 years earlier.
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From the Rough (2013)
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
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For Colored Girls (2010)
A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKing of the Dancehall (2017)
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets caught up in the vibrant Kingston music scene during a visit to Jamaica.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Finding a Family (2011)
Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by graduating from Harvard. But when mother becomes manic-depressive and repeatedly dumps her medication, Alex each time lands in foster care. At age 16, he gets legal emancipation and vows to take charge of their lives himself
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Book of Love (2017)
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nomads (2019)
Amidst the chaos of massive budget cuts and school closures, a young female teacher introduces men's rugby to an inner-city North Philadelphia high school.
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Accidental Friendship (2008)
Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes, Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a chance encounter caused by her dogs leads to a friendship with LAPD officer Tami Baumann, and hope for a better life begins in earnest for Yvonne.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Young One (1960)
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlex of Venice (2015)
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sound of Silence (2019)
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
The closest matches to A Day Late and a Dollar Short are Class (2010), Notes from the Heart Healer (2012) and The Color of Rain (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
People who watched A Day Late and a Dollar Short most often go on to Class (2010), Notes from the Heart Healer (2012) and The Color of Rain (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
The Help (2011), rated 8.2/10 by 9,417 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
The Nomads (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
Yes: Class (2010), Notes from the Heart Healer (2012) and The Color of Rain (2014).
How are movies similar to A Day Late and a Dollar Short chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Day Late and a Dollar Short, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.