15 Movies Like That Lovely Girl

Loved That Lovely Girl? 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.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
#1

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

The Unforgivable
#2

The Unforgivable

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Pimp
#3

Pimp

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Yes
#4

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 That Lovely Girl.

Tuesday
#5

Tuesday

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Hands of Stone
#6

Hands of Stone

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Effie Gray
#7

Effie Gray

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

The Operative
#8

The Operative

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

The Poker House
#9

The Poker House

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Urban Tale
#10

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 That Lovely Girl.

Bastard Out of Carolina
#11

Bastard Out of Carolina

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

A Thousand and One
#12

A Thousand and One

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

Waltz with Bashir
#13

Waltz with Bashir

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to That Lovely Girl.

Hellion
#14

Hellion

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.

The Trials of Cate McCall
#15

The Trials of Cate McCall

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked That Lovely Girl.