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2018 · Movie · your starting pointIf What They Had is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like What They Had, ranked
1. Losing Breen (2016)
Losing Breen explores the same heartbreaking collision of Alzheimer's progression and family conflict, where competing visions of care and responsibility tear at relationships already fragile from years of unresolved hurt.
2. If You Only Knew (2018)
Hilary Swank's portrayal of memory loss and family fracture mirrors the intimate examination of caregiving responsibilities and generational conflict that drives this exploration of how illness forces unresolved family dynamics into the open.
3. The Father (2020)
Florian Zeller's disorienting mise-en-scène traps you inside dementia's confusion just as *What They Had* explores it from the outside, making this the emotional complement that completes the portrait of cognitive decline and familial fracture.
4. A Family Affair (2024)
Zack Braff's direction brings the same intimate family dynamics and emotional authenticity to this multigenerational story, where unexpected circumstances force relatives to navigate vulnerability, unspoken feelings, and what it truly means to show up for one another.
5. Mimi And Dona (2017)
Mimi and Dona explores the same agonizing intersection of caregiving, mortality, and family obligation through an intimate lens, where love and duty collide against the finite timeline of a parent's life.
6. An Unfinished Life (2005)
An Unfinished Life explores how estrangement and unspoken grief fracture families, then uses a crisis—an unexpected arrival—to force confrontation with blame and the possibility of reconciliation.
7. Mummy Dearest (2021)
Blythe Danner's portrayal of cognitive decline grounds both films in the unsettling horror of watching a parent's mind slip away, though this one trades family arguments for supernatural dread.
8. The Caretaker (2016)
Her grandmother's declining health forces a reckoning with family secrets and unresolved wounds, as caregiving becomes both a physical and emotional burden that unearths what everyone's been avoiding.
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