Movies like Toni: 20 to watch next
If you loved Toni (2023) — a comedy and drama film directed by Nathan Ambrosioni — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Toni most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like single mother and mother child bond. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Young Mothers 2025★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sweetheart 2019★ 6.4
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Angel Face 2018★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Under the Stars of Paris 2021★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Other People's Children 2022★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Once Upon My Mother 2025★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Comedy
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Whatever It Takes 2026★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Rose and Jean have nothing in common. Rose is a force of nature who faces all her problems with a disarming joie de vivre. She lives with her 3 children upstairs in the family hotel that no longer belongs to her. They're not poor, they're broke... but only temporarily. Jean is a solitary, taciturn man who has buried his big heart under layers of modesty and resignation. When he arrives in this unusual family, however, he quickly becomes indispensable. What did they expect before they met? Probably nothing. He soon becomes indispensable.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002★ 6.0
Shares: Comedy, Drama
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Love You to Death 2019★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Age of Panic 2013★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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My Own Love Song 2010★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
Stream in India on Plex
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No Love Lost 2023★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A single father, Étienne, is preparing for his daughter Rosa to leave home, but his life is upended when he sees his long-lost wife, Valérie, on TV, forcing a confrontation with the past.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nothing in Common 1986★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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SubUrbia 1997★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bye Bye Morons 2020★ 7.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kitchen Brigade 2022★ 6.4
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children's lives.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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See The Sea 2025★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A young boy who gradually loses sight goes on a getaway vacation with his divorced parents.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Saint Omer 2022★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fatherhood 2021★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
Stream in India on Netflix
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A Taste of Honey 1961★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now