Movies Like Mother

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The End of St. Petersburg

1927·1h 14m·★ 7.3·Vsevolod Pudovkin

2 shared crewBoth star Aleksandr Chistyakov & Vera BaranovskayaDir. Vsevolod Pudovkin

Storm Over Asia

1928·2h 7m·★ 6.9·Vsevolod Pudovkin

2 shared crewBoth star Aleksandr Chistyakov & Fyodor IvanovDir. Vsevolod Pudovkin

Chess Fever

1925·24m·★ 7.1·Vsevolod Pudovkin

2 shared crewBoth star Anna Zemtsova & Ivan Koval-SamborskyiDir. Vsevolod Pudovkin

A Simple Case

1930·1h 15m·★ 6.9·Vsevolod Pudovkin

Both star Aleksandr Chistyakov & Vladimir UralskiyDir. Vsevolod Pudovkin

City Lights

1931·1h 27m·★ 8.5·Charlie Chaplin

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M

1931·1h 50m·★ 8.3·Fritz Lang

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The World of Apu

1959·1h 45m·★ 8.4·Satyajit Ray

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Judgment at Nuremberg

1961·3h 11m·★ 8.3·Stanley Kramer

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Andrei Rublev

1966·3h 3m·★ 8.0·Andrei Tarkovsky

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Roman Holiday

1953·1h 59m·★ 8.0·William Wyler

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Umberto D.

1952·1h 31m·★ 8.1·Vittorio De Sica

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Aparajito

1956·1h 50m·★ 8.2·Satyajit Ray

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Wings of Desire

1987·2h 8m·★ 7.9·Wim Wenders

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The Best Years of Our Lives

1946·2h 51m·★ 8.1·William Wyler

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Rififi

1955·1h 58m·★ 8.1·Jules Dassin

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951·1h 32m·★ 7.7·Robert Wise

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Birdman of Alcatraz

1962·2h 27m·★ 7.8·John Frankenheimer

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Pandora's Box

1929·2h 21m·★ 7.7·G.W. Pabst

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Dead Man

1995·2h 2m·★ 7.5·Jim Jarmusch

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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1919·1h 29m·★ 7.2·D.W. Griffith

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How Good Is Mother?

Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.