20 movies like The Client List, ordered by similarity : Blind Date(2008), Middle of Nowhere(2012), Queen to Play(2009), Save Me(2007), Somewhere Slow(2013), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood(2002), Normal(2003), Sui Dhaaga: Made in India(2018), Inspector Bellamy(2009), The Namesake(2006), Anything for Her(2008), Mother and Child(2009) ...
Drama
2010
90 Minutes
Jennifer Love Hewitt Teddy Sears Sonja Bennett Cybill Shepherd Lynda Boyd Chelah Horsdal Reila Aphrodite Heather Doerksen Kacey Rohl Kandyse McClure
massage therapist husband emotional united states lust greed discovery transformation 2000s
A woman (Jennifer Love Hewitt) unknowingly takes a job at a massage parlor where prostitution runs rampant.
Drama
USA|UK
2008
80 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Patricia Clarkson Georgina Verbaan Gerdy De Decker Robin Holzhauer Peer Mascini Thijs Römer
wife husband amusing quirky emotional dark nightclub city united states grief tragic death husband/wife relationship marital problems dating impersonation discovery transformation love 2000s
Affected by tragedy, a married couple decide to role play a blind date.
Romance, Drama
2012
101 Minutes
Emayatzy Corinealdi David Oyelowo Omari Hardwick Lorraine Toussaint Edwina Findley Sharon Lawrence Dondré Whitfield Troy Curvey III Maya Gilbert
wife husband couple medical student convict emotional endearing engaging gripping inspiring prison united states america prison prison life self-discovery journey marriage relationships incarceration
A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).
Drama
2009
97 Minutes
Sandrine Bonnaire Kevin Kline Valerie Lagrange Francis Renaud Alexandra Gentil Alice Pol Didier Ferrari Laurence Colussi Élisabeth Vitali Daniel Martin Dominic Gould
housekeeper doctor chess player husband daughter expatriate emotional engaging spirited corsica hotel house bar chess self-discovery passion family individuality relationships transformation
A chambermaid (Sandrine Bonnaire) begs a reclusive employer (Kevin Kline) to teach her chess, then discovers that she has a real talent for the game.
Drama
2007
96 Minutes
Chad Allen Robert Gant Judith Light Stephen Lang Robert Baker David Petruzzi Arron Shiver Colin Jones William Dennis Hurley Ross Kelly Paul Scallan
young man brother love interest counselor husband homosexual inspiring intense emotional new mexico rehabilitation clinic homophobia homosexuality christianity self-discovery drugs rehabilitation discovery forbidden love transformation
The views of a gay man (Chad Allen) conflict with those of the proprietors of a Christian facility that helps troubled residents.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
2013
125 Minutes
Jessalyn Gilsig David Costabile Graham Martin Robert Forster Lindsay Crouse Melissa Claire Egan Wallace Langham Clifford Bañagale Kim Yarbrough Blaise Embry Denise Grayson
woman teen boy teenager drifter mysterious drifter love interest romantic interest lighthearted emotional endearing heartwarming inspiring united states discovery new life starting over self-discovery robbery travel traveling
When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
116 Minutes
Sandra Bullock Ellen Burstyn Fionnula Flanagan James Garner Cherry Jones Ashley Judd Shirley Knight Angus Macfadyen Maggie Smith Jacqueline McKenzie Katy Selverstone
friend daughter playwright mother fiancé husband emotional touching heartwarming amusing new york city louisiana wedding kitchen small town beach memory parent/child relationship motherhood marriage
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Drama
2003
109 Minutes
Jessica Lange Tom Wilkinson Hayden Panettiere Clancy Brown Joe Sikora Randall Arney Richard Bull Mary Seibel
husband wife son daughter boss emotional moving illinois household church gender identity family sexual taboo discovery transformation 2000s
A factory worker (Tom Wilkinson) shocks his wife (Jessica Lange) and children when he announces that he wants a sex-change operation.
Crime, Drama
France
2009
110 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Clovis Cornillac Jacques Gamblin Marie Bunel Vahina Giocante Marie Matheron Adrienne Pauly Yves Verhoeven Bruno Abraham-Kremer Rodolphe Pauly
detective husband wife half brother emotional crafty dark sultry house france dance floor car vacation husband/wife relationship brotherhood work vs. family investigation murder mystery quest
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
Drama
USA|India
2006
122 Minutes
Kal Penn Tabu Irrfan Khan Zuleikha Robinson Jacinda Barrett Glenne Headly Brooke Smith Sahira Nair Jessica Blank
mother son husband girlfriend in-law singer emotional calcutta, india new york city airplane cemetery culture clash childhood wedding interracial relationship literature discovery transformation 2000s
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Drama
USA|Spain
2009
126 Minutes
Naomi Watts Annette Bening Kerry Washington Jimmy Smits Samuel L. Jackson S. Epatha Merkerson Cherry Jones Elpidia Carrillo Shareeka Epps David Morse Eileen Ryan
mother daughter physical therapist lawyer husband emotional powerful profound law office hospital restaurant household orphanage adoption parenthood marriage pregnancy family regret discovery
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
2005
103 Minutes
Felicity Huffman Kevin Zegers Fionnula Flanagan Graham Greene Burt Young Elizabeth Peña Bianca Leigh Jon Budinoff Carrie Preston Maurice Orozco
transsexual son rancher mother therapist emotional uplifting positive los angeles new york city prison phoenix car road trip father/son relationship car theft sexual abuse sex change sexual identity transformation
A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
108 Minutes
Renée Zellweger Logan Lerman Kevin Bacon Troy Garity David Koechner Eric McCormack Chris Noth Mark Rendall Nick Stahl Steven Weber Robin Weigert
wife unfaithful husband husband son love interest suitor amusing hilarious engaging charming witty playful united states new york new york city unhappy marriage relationships attraction new life happiness
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
Romance, Drama
USA
2007
106 Minutes
Maria Bello Amy Brenneman Emily Blunt Maggie Grace Kathy Baker Hugh Dancy Kevin Zegers Marc Blucas Jimmy Smits Lynn Redgrave Nancy Travis
friend cheater teacher mother lesbian husband dreamy emotional heartwarming house bar coffee shop hotel literature romance infidelity homosexuality writers friendship discovery
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.
Drama
Germany|Spain|France|Belgium
2005
107 Minutes
Pilar López de Ayala Juan Diego Botto Bárbara Lennie Peter Lohmeyer Mercedes Sampietro Eduard Fernández Héctor Colomé Txema Blasco Iñake Irastorza Ryan Cameron Christian Tardío
college student filmmaker young woman teacher townsperson creative dreamy emotional spain basque country rural community cemetery small town small-town life filmmaking self-discovery class project discovery growing up transformation
A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.
Other, Drama
UK
2007
90 Minutes
Tom Berenger Joely Richardson Luke Ward-Wilkinson Lia Williams Jenny O'Hara Ronald Pickup Elliot Cowan Derek Riddell
woodworker mother son young boy dead person friend engaging emotional melodramatic heartwarming charming creative family home friendship relationships christmas emotion art adventure discovery
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, ... See full summary »
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2001
92 Minutes
Lili Taylor Courtney Love Spalding Gray Noah Emmerich Mischa Barton Gideon Jacobs Patrick Fitzgerald Kelley Hill
housewife husband son daughter best friend lesbian amusing gutsy inspiring emotional new jersey hoboken, n.j. community college house domestic life self-discovery family dysfunction lesbianism sexual awakening triumph over adversity
A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.
Drama
Israel
2003
95 Minutes
Anat Waxman Eyal Rozales Nthati Moshesh Ido Port Reut Kahlon
wife mother husband nanny lover friend emotional tender moving tel aviv, israel family home homosexuality family racism new life homophobia love discovery transformation love
A divorced Israeli woman hires a single African woman as a nanny, and soon the two women form a passionate friendship that leads to a romantic relationship.
Comedy, Drama
Canada|USA
2018
104 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Christopher Plummer Lewis MacDougall Bobby Cannavale Kristen Schaal Peter Fonda Christopher Lloyd Dolly Wells Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Ryan Robbins BJ Harrison
single mother estranged father son drug dealer ex-husband grandson amusing emotional tense touching car texas california hotel mother/son relationship father/daughter relationship estrangement road trip ex-husbands drugs
Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack cross country after being kicked out of a nursing home.