Movies like Beautiful Kate (2009)
The best movies like Beautiful Kate (2009) are Homesick (2015), The War Zone (1999) and Gemini (2005). If Beautiful Kate hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMommy (2014)8.2/10 from 2,925 votes
- NewestSex (2024)Released 2024
Homesick (2015)
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before? Homesick is an unusual family drama about seeking a family, and breaking every rule to be one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe War Zone (1999)
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGemini (2005)
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLuna (1979)
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMammal (2016)
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hussy (1979)
Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. For reasons which never become clear, François kidnaps Mado, and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. Instead of feeling fear, Mado enters into the spirit of the abduction, and they joust with one another, increasingly finding love and comfort in their relationship. When the police come upon them, however, they put an entirely different interpretation on their behavior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sweetie (1989)
The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten roots of their family and placing a strain on Kay and Louis’ relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClose My Eyes (1991)
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisReckless (2013)
An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Unloved (2009)
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
52 Tuesdays (2014)
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Normal (2007)
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Exhibition (2013)
An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Unrelated (2008)
A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdoration (2013)
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cement Garden (1993)
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaniel & Ana (2009)
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Mistress (2014)
After the death of his father, a 16-year-old boy struggles with anger and instability, distancing himself from his mother. His search for escape leads him to a lonely dominatrix living nearby, a woman accustomed to giving and controlling pain. Drawn to her world, he seeks both solace and love, while she finds herself pulled into a bond that neither expected but both need.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ice Storm (1997)
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex (2024)
Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCold Showers (2005)
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRatcatcher (1999)
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisArchipelago (2011)
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMommy (2014)
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBroken (2012)
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMysterious Skin (2005)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRay & Liz (2018)
On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackrock (1997)
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Love Birds (2017)
A man and a woman meet eachother in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Night Buffalo (2007)
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Beautiful Kate?
The closest matches to Beautiful Kate are Homesick (2015), The War Zone (1999) and Gemini (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Beautiful Kate?
People who watched Beautiful Kate most often go on to Homesick (2015), The War Zone (1999) and Gemini (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like Beautiful Kate?
Mommy (2014), rated 8.2/10 by 2,925 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Beautiful Kate?
Sex (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Beautiful Kate?
Yes: The War Zone (1999), Mammal (2016) and Sweetie (1989).
How are movies similar to Beautiful Kate chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Beautiful Kate, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.