Movies like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 (2009)
The best movies like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 (2009) are True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and In the Heights (2021). If Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Ultimate Gift (2007)7.7/10 from 569 votes
- NewestPalm Trees and Power Lines (2023)Released 2023
True Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Heights (2021)
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives have become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices, and a dark secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Perfect Man (2005)
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHis (2020)
Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNow, Voyager (1942)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPalm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBecause I Said So (2007)
In an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters try to keep their mom's good intentions under control.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisJamon Jamon (1992)
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Mother's Future Husband (2014)
Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough, so she decides to find her a new husband by the end of the summer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Ultimate Gift (2007)
When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGeorgia Rule (2007)
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeauty Shop (2005)
Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profession. But after repeatedly butting heads with her shady, over-the-top boss, Jorge, Norris sets out to create her own salon -- even snagging a few of Jorge's employees and clients. Now, Jorge will do anything to shut her down.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaving Face (2004)
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Souvenir: Part II (2021)
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoving Annabelle (2007)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArisan Brondong (2010)
Geng socialite mother; Lolita was a widow who became entrepreneurs due to expensive boutiques treasure Gono-gini ex-ex-husband, Anis rather an idiot, and Uut fat, often hold joint gathering costly. By the time the three get together, the mortal enemy of Lolita, Misye, while gathering brought a popcorn (the term to refer to youth aged bear) named Erik. Misye gaze is believed to be a challenge for Lolita, which eventually terkompori and with Anis and Uut, holding auditions looking for popcorn at the shop.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Anywhere but Here (1999)
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Party (1980)
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8?
The closest matches to Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 are True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and In the Heights (2021). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8?
Start with True Romance (1993), the closest match to Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8.
What is the highest-rated movie like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8?
The Ultimate Gift (2007), rated 7.7/10 by 569 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8?
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8?
Yes: True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and In the Heights (2021).
How are movies similar to Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.