Most Similar Movies to Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)


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A Delicate Balance (1973), Okaasan (1952), Stella Dallas (1937), A Summer Place (1959), Christmas Manger (2018), Intersection (1994), Love in Another Town (1997) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

A Delicate Balance (1973)

A Delicate Balance (1973)

6.7/10 Drama

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.

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Okaasan (1952)

Okaasan (1952)

7.6/10 Drama

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Stella Dallas (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

7.4/10 Drama

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

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A Summer Place (1959)

A Summer Place (1959)

6.9/10 Drama

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

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Christmas Manger (2018)

Christmas Manger (2018)

5.6/10 Drama, Other, Romance

An elderly man grapples with his wife's death until his young daughter and his estranged foster child re-enter his life, giving him a new purpose.

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Intersection (1994)

Intersection (1994)

5.4/10 Drama

While driving on a remote highway, a man is torn between choosing to reunite with his estranged wife or taking up with his lovers

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Love in Another Town (1997)

Love in Another Town (1997)

5.1/10 Drama, Romance

Romeo & Juliet gets transplanted to the Bronx.

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A Regular Woman (2019)

A Regular Woman (2019)

9.4/10 Drama

A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.

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Woodpeckers (2017)

Woodpeckers (2017)

8.0/10 Drama

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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Canvas (2006)

Canvas (2006)

7.8/10 Drama

In a small coastal town, contractor John Marino (Joe Pantoliano) struggles to understand his wife, Mary (Marcia Gay Harden), when she starts behaving strangely. After a doctor's visit, they discover she has schizophrenia. Nothing the doctors do helps, however, so John must live with his wife's incurable mental illness, while also helping their confused child Chris (Devon Gearhart) make sense of it. But as Mary's mental state declines, John finds an unexpected source of comfort in his son.

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Skylark (1993)

Skylark (1993)

7.3/10 Drama

Sarah (Glenn Close) and farmer husband Jacob Witting (Christopher Walken) want to keep their family together, but a drought makes it difficult to farm their land and provide for their children. When a fire ruins several buildings on their property, Sarah takes stepdaughter Anna (Lexi Randall) and stepson Caleb (Christopher Bell) to her brother's home in Maine, leaving Jacob to tend what's left of their farm. As they steel themselves for a period of separation, Jacob and Sarah pledge to reunite.

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Carol (2015)

Carol (2015)

7.2/10 Drama, Romance

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Sunflower (2005)

Sunflower (2005)

6.9/10 Drama

When Chairman Mao dies, many men jailed during his regime are released, including artist Zhang Gengnian (Sun Haiying), who comes back to his wife, Xiuqing (Joan Chen), and son, Xiangyang (Zhang Fan), after a long absence. There is unease in the family home, though, as Xiangyang is mistrustful of the father he barely knows and Gengnian is no longer able to paint after years of forced labor. Xiangyang begins to excel at art, which could either bring him closer to his father or widen the schism.

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Happy End (2017)

Happy End (2017)

6.7/10 Drama

A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

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Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

6.5/10 Drama

The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.

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Having You (2013)

Having You (2013)

6.4/10 Comedy, Drama

Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.

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Two Bits (1995)

Two Bits (1995)

6.2/10 Drama

Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.

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Sand Storm (2016)

Sand Storm (2016)

9.3/10 Drama

In Southern Israel, a teen's (Lamis Ammar) forbidden love affair challenges the traditions of her Bedouin mother and father.

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