Movies like Mammal (2016)
The best movies like Mammal (2016) are Homesick (2015), Beautiful Kate (2009) and Luna (1979). If Mammal hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStuart: A Life Backwards (2007)7.4/10 from 234 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 thisBeautiful Kate (2009)
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
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 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
Gemini (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 thisLove 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
Archipelago (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 thisUnrelated (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 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 thisPast Imperfect (2017)
Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets confronted with her emotional emptiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Steam (2007)
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sex (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 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 thisMaterna (2020)
A psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ray & 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 thisA Little Closer (2011)
In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, fifteen year-old Marc and eleven year-old Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a father for her boys, she frequents a depressing, weekly mixer for the towns aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose his virginity, and spends his days working at a used car lot. And his brother Stephen, in the throes of sexual discovery, becomes infatuated with his school teacher while hoping to win the approval of a group of peers who adamantly detest her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Wait (2022)
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend arrives at the island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIllegitimate (2016)
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThings to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGino and Marie (2019)
Two sex workers, a 17-year-old Gino and young mother Marie, are hired to do a pornographic film. The day before All Saints' Day, they travel to a remote location for the shoot. During the shooting, they are made to do acts to which they didn't agree. Feeling trapped and isolated, the two are pushed to the edge of their dignity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Chambermaid Lynn (2015)
Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Our Life (2010)
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrdinary People (2016)
Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Counterpart (2014)
Counterpart follows Alex, a young estate agent who lives in a flat with his girlfriend, Lily, a former stripper. They spend most of their time sunbathing or having sex. But someone is watching them from a home across the street. The voyeur is a disabled man who helps the young couple make a life changing discovery
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Daniel & 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 thisYoung and Wild (2012)
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Consolation (2017)
Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past that she would have concealed and proposes to browse together a photo-album of her childhood. The cliché of a teenager with a sad look will wake up buried memories ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wreckers (2011)
A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mammal?
The closest matches to Mammal are Homesick (2015), Beautiful Kate (2009) and Luna (1979). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mammal?
People who watched Mammal most often go on to Homesick (2015), Beautiful Kate (2009) and Luna (1979).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mammal?
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007), rated 7.4/10 by 234 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mammal?
Sex (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mammal?
Yes: Beautiful Kate (2009), Archipelago (2011) and Unrelated (2008).
How are movies similar to Mammal chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mammal, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.