Movies Like Mother

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

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

1935·1h 14m·★ 7.5·Mikio Naruse

2 shared crewDir. Mikio NaruseDP: Hiroshi Suzuki

Ginza Cosmetics

1951·1h 27m·★ 7.0·Mikio Naruse

3 shared cast incl. Kinuyo Tanaka & Kyōko KagawaDir. Mikio Naruse

Lightning

1952·1h 27m·★ 7.5·Mikio Naruse

Both star Kyōko Kagawa & Chieko NakakitaDir. Mikio Naruse

White Beast

1950·1h 37m·★ 6.7·Mikio Naruse

Both star Eiji Okada & Chieko NakakitaDir. Mikio Naruse

The Ballad of Narayama

1958·1h 38m·★ 7.8·Keisuke Kinoshita

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Sansho the Bailiff

1954·2h 4m·★ 8.3·Kenji Mizoguchi

Both star Kinuyo Tanaka & Kyōko Kagawa

Rocco and His Brothers

1960·2h 58m·★ 8.2·Luchino Visconti

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The Life of Oharu

1952·2h 16m·★ 8.0·Kenji Mizoguchi

Both star Kinuyo Tanaka & Daisuke Katō

21 Grams

2003·2h 4m·★ 7.6·Alejandro González Iñárritu

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Lolita

1962·2h 34m·★ 7.5·Stanley Kubrick

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Finding Neverland

2004·1h 46m·★ 7.6·Marc Forster

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The Quiet Man

1952·2h 9m·★ 7.7·John Ford

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Driving Miss Daisy

1989·1h 39m·★ 7.3·Bruce Beresford

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My Own Private Idaho

1991·1h 44m·★ 6.9·Gus Van Sant

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The Unloved Woman

1949·1h 26m·★ 7.3·Emilio Fernández

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Starman

1984·1h 55m·★ 7.0·John Carpenter

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Antonia's Line

1995·1h 42m·★ 7.4·Marleen Gorris

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Wendy and Lucy

2008·1h 20m·★ 7.1·Kelly Reichardt

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Two in the Shadow

1967·1h 48m·★ 7.8·Mikio Naruse

Starring Daisuke KatōDir. Mikio Naruse

Sound of the Mountain

1954·1h 36m·★ 7.7·Mikio Naruse

Starring Chieko NakakitaDir. Mikio Naruse

How Good Is Mother?

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