Movies like Mother (1926)
The best movies like Mother (1926) are Strike (1925), Earth (1930) and The Pleasure Garden (1925). If Mother hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)7.9/10 from 1,853 votes
- NewestHappiness (1935)Released 1935
Strike (1925)
Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEarth (1930)
During the agrarian collectivization process in the Soviet Union, Vasyl, a peasant member of the youth division of the Communist Party, gets a tractor with the help of a local party organization and plows private boundaries on kulak fields. However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pleasure Garden (1925)
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOctober (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's Winter Palace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Laugh (1924)
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaster of the House (1925)
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappiness (1935)
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cœur fidèle (1923)
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStorm Over Asia (1928)
Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair, shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, unaware that their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattleship Potemkin (1925)
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa Roue (1923)
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFinis Terræ (1929)
On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can be sold for high prices. It is therefore burnt in several large piles on the island. Problems arise when one of them gets an infected thumb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisApart from You (1933)
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of shame.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Joyless Street (1925)
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAsphalt (1929)
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisJ'accuse (1919)
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe General Line (1929)
100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress, she changes the lives and labours of her village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Goddess (1934)
A young prostitute, who is trying to give her infant son a good start in life, must contend with a coercive pimp and the prejudices of others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL'Âge d'or (1930)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeople on Sunday (1930)
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNapoleon (1927)
A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant 1797 invasion of Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mother?
The closest matches to Mother are Strike (1925), Earth (1930) and The Pleasure Garden (1925). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mother?
People who watched Mother most often go on to Strike (1925), Earth (1930) and The Pleasure Garden (1925).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mother?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), rated 7.9/10 by 1,853 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mother?
Happiness (1935) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Mother chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mother, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.