Movies like A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
The best movies like A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) are Lawn Dogs (1997), Book of Love (2004) and The Deep End (2001). If A Love Song for Bobby Long hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Emperor's Club (2002)7.1/10 from 423 votes
- NewestThe Yellow Handkerchief (2009)Released 2009
Lawn Dogs (1997)
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBook of Love (2004)
Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.
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The Deep End (2001)
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
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Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisChrystal (2004)
Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured his wife, Joe finally comes home and tries to redeem himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Manny & Lo (1996)
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boys Are Back (2009)
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Rumor of Angels (2000)
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
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Jaded (1998)
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Blue Car (2003)
Meg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, her English teacher, recognizes her talent and encourages her to enter a national poetry contest. As tension at home escalates and Meg struggles to find a way to get to the poetry finals in Florida, Auster's role in her life becomes increasingly complex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunshine State (2002)
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Emperor's Club (2002)
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisTurn the River (2008)
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Passion Fish (1992)
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisLoverboy (2005)
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lucky Ones (2008)
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAround the Bend (2004)
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisMost (2003)
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoliday Heart (2000)
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLosing Isaiah (1995)
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShadrach (1998)
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sherrybaby (2006)
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisElegy (2008)
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLucy (2003)
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dawn Anna (2005)
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
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Interview (2007)
After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGeorgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Love Song for Bobby Long?
The closest matches to A Love Song for Bobby Long are Lawn Dogs (1997), Book of Love (2004) and The Deep End (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Love Song for Bobby Long?
People who watched A Love Song for Bobby Long most often go on to Lawn Dogs (1997), Book of Love (2004) and The Deep End (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Love Song for Bobby Long?
The Emperor's Club (2002), rated 7.1/10 by 423 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Love Song for Bobby Long?
The Yellow Handkerchief (2009) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Love Song for Bobby Long?
Yes: Lawn Dogs (1997), Book of Love (2004) and The Deep End (2001).
How are movies similar to A Love Song for Bobby Long chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Love Song for Bobby Long, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.