Movies like Gideon's Daughter (2005)
The best movies like Gideon's Daughter (2005) are Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Waiting for Forever (2010) and Arthur Newman (2012). If Gideon's Daughter hooked you with its tv movie and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOne Chance (2013)6.7/10 from 329 votes
- NewestMy Fiona (2021)Released 2021
Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her past still haunts her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWaiting for Forever (2010)
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisArthur Newman (2012)
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrust Me (2013)
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Hologram for the King (2016)
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Fiona (2021)
Best friends for life, Jane and Fiona have done everything together since kindergarten – Jane following wherever Fiona will lead. Left devastated and adrift following Fiona’s sudden suicide, Jane’s only way to make sense of everything is by helping Fiona’s widow Gemma care for their young son Bailey. Polar-opposites, the two women have nothing in common save for their shared grief and love for Fiona.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Heartlands (2003)
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping to win her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisIris (2001)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFierce People (2006)
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIs Anybody There? (2009)
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGinger & Rosa (2012)
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnconditional Love (2002)
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSylvia (2003)
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this100 Streets (2016)
Three extraordinary stories covering infidelity, adoption, and a drug dealer turned actor intertwine as characters meet in the streets of London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other Woman (2010)
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFugitive Pieces (2008)
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Factory Girl (2006)
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiss Julie (2014)
Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdrift in Manhattan (2007)
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCustody (2016)
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Letters (2014)
Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Benefactor (2015)
A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThings We Lost in the Fire (2007)
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUrban Hymn (2015)
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hallam Foe (2007)
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Chance (2013)
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Dinner with Hervé (2018)
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTalhotBlond (2012)
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this
Like Gideon's Daughter and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Gideon's Daughter?
The closest matches to Gideon's Daughter are Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Waiting for Forever (2010) and Arthur Newman (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Gideon's Daughter?
People who watched Gideon's Daughter most often go on to Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Waiting for Forever (2010) and Arthur Newman (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Gideon's Daughter?
One Chance (2013), rated 6.7/10 by 329 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Gideon's Daughter?
My Fiona (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Gideon's Daughter?
Yes: Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Waiting for Forever (2010) and Arthur Newman (2012).
How are movies similar to Gideon's Daughter chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Gideon's Daughter, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.