15 Movies Like Sweet Mud
Loved Sweet Mud? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
American Beauty
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
The Babysitters
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Mammal
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
The Fabelmans
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Detachment
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Here
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Prayers for Bobby
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
The Son
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
The Crush
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Yes
In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sweet Mud.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
A Wife's Nightmare
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Dad
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sweet Mud.
Urban Tale
A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sweet Mud.