Movies like Dearest
If Dearest's mix of kidnapping, child kidnapping and separation from family stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dearest's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Black Dog
2024 · Directed by Guan Hu · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Zhang Yi · Also a Chinese drama
Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray.
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A Perfect World
1993 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 138 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: child kidnapping
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
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John Q
2002 · Directed by Nick Cassavetes · 116 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
1999 · Directed by Ulu Grosbard · 106 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.