20 movies like Black Girl, ordered by similarity : Little Sister(2015), Fatima(2015), Okaasan(1952), Summer Hours(2008), A Christmas Tale(2008), I Capture the Castle(2003), Falling Angels(2003), Early Summer(1951), I Never Sang for My Father(1970), Let Me Go(2017), Loveling(2018), The Man in the Moon(1991) ...
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Brock Peters Leslie Uggams Peggy Pettit Claudia McNeil Louise Stubbs Gloria Edwards Loretta Greene Kent Martin Ruby Dee
daughter sister single mother adopted daughter grandmother tender emotional moving family home mother/child relationship dreams siblings family dysfunction jealousy poverty growing up rivalry 1970s
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Drama
2015
126 Minutes
Haruka Ayase Masami Nagasawa Kaho Suzu Hirose Kirin Kiki Shinobu Ohtake Ryô Kase Jun Fubuki
sister mother figure estranged father sibling half sister friend caregiver grandmother love interest romantic interest mother lighthearted emotional engaging endearing positive japan home family home family
After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Drama
France
2008
102 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Charles Berling Jérémie Renier Édith Scob Dominique Reymond Kyle Eastwood Alice De Lencquesaing Eric Elmosnino
mother brother sister son daughter emotional moving paris france household family mother/child relationship inheritance mortality art siblings discovery love 2000s
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
Comedy, Other, Drama
France
2008
150 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Jean-Paul Roussillon Mathieu Amalric Françoise Bertin Laurent Capelluto Anne Consigny Emmanuelle Devos Hippolyte Girardot Chiara Mastroianni Emile Berling
mother daughter son tense emotional moving touching family home roubaix, france illness family death growing up sacrifice rivalry 2000s
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Romance, Drama
UK
2003
111 Minutes
Romola Garai Rose Byrne Henry Thomas Marc Blucas Bill Nighy Tara Fitzgerald Sinead Cusack Henry Cavill
father daughter sister american brother mother emotional charming england castle countryside poverty family father/daughter relationship writing marriage seduction love growing up 1930s
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.
Comedy, Drama
2003
101 Minutes
Miranda Richardson Callum Keith Rennie Katharine Isabelle Kristin Adams Monté Gagné Kett Turton Mark McKinney Ingrid Nilson Carman Fielding Courtney Goodison Melissa Brown
teen girl daughter father mother married man sister offbeat dark quirky emotional saskatchewan, canada family home bomb shelter family dysfunction sisterhood coming of age secrets relationships mental illness growing up
In 1969 three disgruntled sisters deal with their domineering father (Callum Keith Rennie) and catatonic mother (Miranda Richardson).
Drama
1951
124 Minutes
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Kuniko Miyake Chikage Awashima Chieko Higashiyama Kuniko Igawa Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
career woman daughter brother mother father businessman emotional moving tokyo family home office city japan marriage tradition independence family working woman love triangle love
Drama
1970
90 Minutes
Melvyn Douglas Gene Hackman Dorothy Stickney Estelle Parsons Elizabeth Hubbard Lovelady Powell Daniel Keyes Conrad Bain Jon Richards James Karen
father son mother fiancée sister college professor moving tender emotional bleak touching brooding new york city parents' house diner hospital father/son relationship independence family grief
A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).
Drama
UK|Austria
2017
101 Minutes
Lucy Boynton Stanley Weber Jodhi May Juliet Stevenson Elizabeth Webster Abhin Galeya Éva Magyar Sevda Levent
mother daughter ghost granddaughter great-grandmother moving emotional gripping engaging heartwarming inspiring vienna england austria life family family secrets abandonment journey death
Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go ... See full summary »
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Karine Teles Otávio Muller Adriana Esteves Konstantinos Sarris César Troncoso Mateus Solano Camilo Pellegrini Ariclenes Barroso Pablo Riera Lucas Gouvêa
mother father child brother sister teen boy touching emotional amusing charming cheeky moving rio de janeiro house school beach car auditorium leaving home mother/son relationship
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.
Drama
USA
1991
99 Minutes
Sam Waterston Tess Harper Gail Strickland Reese Witherspoon Jason London Emily Warfield Bentley Mitchum Ernie Lively
teen girl sister teen boy father mother endearing tender emotional louisiana farm family home field first love love triangle sibling rivalry sister relationship accident betrayal growing up love
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Drama
2008
131 Minutes
Sean Combs Phylicia Rashad Audra McDonald Sanaa Lathan John Stamos Justin Martin Sean Patrick Thomas David Oyelowo Bill Nunn Ron Cephas Jones Sandi Ross
mother maid chauffeur widow daughter son engaging emotional tender chicago household insurance integration family moving dreams rise sacrifice 1950s
A widow (Phylicia Rashad), her son (Sean Combs) and other members of a black family have differing ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check.
Drama, Comedy
USA
1983
132 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger Jack Nicholson Jeff Daniels Danny DeVito John Lithgow Betty King Lisa Hart Carroll Huckleberry Fox Troy Bishop
mother daughter professor astronaut touching emotional sad small town midwest family home family romance cancer mother/daughter relationship love growing up 1980s
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
Drama
Canada
2002
90 Minutes
Molly Parker Rebecca Jenkins Stacy Smith Marguerite McNeil Elliot Page Hollis McLaren Emmy Alcorn Joseph Rutten Nicola Lipman Jackie Torrens
alcoholic sister mother teen girl daughter emotional tender solemn nova scotia house mother/child relationship alcoholism child abuse repression reconciliation sisterhood sacrifice rescue rivalry love
Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
War, Drama
2013
117 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Lauryn Canny Adrianna Cramer Curtis Maria Doyle Kennedy Larry Mullen Jr. Mads Ousdal Chloe Annett
family photojournalist young woman mother daughter husband emotional engaging fiery gripping intense powerful war zone home kabul, afghanistan africa refugee camp ireland career family
A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).
Drama
Italy|France
1988
94 Minutes
Stefania Sandrelli Jean-Pierre Duriez Céline Beauvallet Micheline Presle Leonardo Ruta Francesca Antonelli Lorenzo De Pasqua Eleonora Sambiagio Daniele Zaccaria
teen girl teen boy cousin mother baker daughter charming tender emotional italy family home paris bookstore teen angst family infidelity young love fitting in friendship growing up
A French teenage girl is forced to move in with her less well off Italian relatives.
Drama
USA
1977
119 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Anne Bancroft Mikhail Baryshnikov Leslie Browne Tom Skerritt Martha Scott Antoinette Sibley Alexandra Danilova Starr Danias Marshall Thompson James Mitchell
mother ballerina womanizer husband daughter brooding emotional melodramatic passionate new york city oklahoma ballet jealousy family regret resentment rivalry sacrifice 1970s
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Drama
USA
1973
93 Minutes
Joanne Woodward Martin Balsam Sylvia Sidney Dori Brenner Win Forman Tresa Hughes Peter Marklin Ron Richards Charley Oberley Minerva Pious Helen Ludlam
wife mother husband daughter dark emotional family home farm france battlefield family death mother/child relationship childhood transformation 1970s
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ... See full summary »
Drama
1976
93 Minutes
Hilda Koronel Ruel Vernal Rez Cortez Carpi Asturias Mona Lisa Marlon Ramirez Nina Lorenzo Mely Mallari
young woman mother daughter boyfriend love interest uncle engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful bleak intense manila manila, philippines relationships attraction mother/daughter relationship jealousy fighting tragedy
After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.