Movies like Conversations with Mother (2004)
The best movies like Conversations with Mother (2004) are The Dad Quest (2025), Therapy Done Right (2026) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1925). If Conversations with Mother hooked you with its comedy and 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 7,047 votes
- NewestTherapy Done Right (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishThe Dad Quest (2025)Also in Spanish
The Dad Quest (2025)
When a father-son duo learns that they may not be biologically related, the two embark on a wild adventure through Mexico to find the truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTherapy Done Right (2026)
A psychoanalyst who's lost faith in traditional therapy crosses every boundary to help a blocked novelist in this cutting Argentine dark comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatricia, A Hidden Passion (2020)
Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove & Revolution (2023)
Seville, 1977. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme, a traditional mother moved by the love of her son, an adolescent aspiring artist, will become involved in the Andalusian LGBTQ+ movement, paradoxically born in the bosom of the Church.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSomewhere in Queens (2023)
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToday We Fix the World (2022)
David Samaras, "el Griego", is the general producer of the popular talk show "Hoy se arregla el mundo", where supposedly ordinary people resolve relationship, couple, friendship, work, parent and child conflicts. The most enduring bond in his life is Benito, his 9-year-old son, the fruit of a casual relationship. The story changes completely when he learns that Benito is not his son. The search for the real dad will lead them to a crossroads much bigger than the one they set out to face.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe People Upstairs (2020)
Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Meddler (2016)
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInstructions Not Included (2013)
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTreasure (2024)
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInseparables (2016)
Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMatch (2014)
A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWelcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlmost Friends (2017)
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Embrace (2004)
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing in Common (1986)
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisC'mon C'mon (2021)
Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNO LO VEN (2024)
Jorge is a taxi driver from Córdoba clinging to rhetoric of order, meritocracy, and anger. His only friend is López, his dead rabbit—confidant and spiritual compass. At night, Jorge and López cross paths with passengers who embody various social stereotypes, distorted mirrors of a society on edge. Amid absurd conversations and increasingly extreme situations, his routine shatters when the young man who humiliated him hours earlier gets into the cab. Caught between anger, delirium, and a yearning for vindication, Jorge must decide whether to act to reclaim his wounded dignity or accept becoming the object of ridicule he feels the world has imposed on him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
A Teachable Moment (2016)
Henry lies at the side of the road, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. A young mother with a bizarre sense of appropriate uses his final moments as a teachable lesson for her 6 year old son.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
Chaos Toad (2018)
Stuck living as a care giver for his distant ailing mother, Andy receives a surprise intervention from his fabulous childhood imaginary friend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy
General Cleaning (2020)
During a general cleaning weekend in his village house an old cemetery groundskeeper discovers that he is just as much of a burden for his family, as his old mementos they are throwing away in the trash.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Goodbye (2019)
Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Red Star (2021)
The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Crossroads (2025)
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s wedding. The idyll is shattered by a tragic car accident that casts a shadow over his marriage and reveals cracks in his relationship with his son.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Mustang (2016)
Weekend-dad Kim-Andre is trying hard to be the perfect father for his daughter Mina, but must deal with his mother when she steals the trump card of his - a newly renovated Ford Mustang.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Conversations with Mother?
The closest matches to Conversations with Mother are The Dad Quest (2025), Therapy Done Right (2026) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1925). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Conversations with Mother?
Start with The Dad Quest (2025), the closest match to Conversations with Mother.
What is the highest-rated movie like Conversations with Mother?
Captain Fantastic (2016), rated 7.9/10 by 7,047 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Conversations with Mother?
Therapy Done Right (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Conversations with Mother?
Yes: The Dad Quest (2025), Therapy Done Right (2026) and Patricia, A Hidden Passion (2020).
How are movies similar to Conversations with Mother chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Conversations with Mother, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.