Movies like Digger 1993
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Digger (1993)
284
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, art house, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family drama, boyhood, life & death, grief, loss, small town, empathy, bittersweet, macabre, isolation, relatives, outsider, acceptance, mourning, intimate, healing, backwoods, transformation, slow burn, dog, boy, family relations, parents ...
Time:
year 1993
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and poignant films with plots about grief, small town, intimate, coming of age, bittersweet, loss and healing mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Digger: Aquila (1997), Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998), Sea Sparkle (2023), Prakashan Parakkatte (2022), Dream State (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
378
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
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Story:
Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. It ...
Style:
suspenseful, lighthearted, educational
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
children, cave, boy, curiosity, friendship, secrets, moral dilemma, coming of age, adaptation, exploration, spaceship, alien technology ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bristol, wales
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, sensitive, heartfelt ...
Plot:
boy girl relationship, mourning, grief, friendship, cancer, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, children, loss, childhood, innocence, empathy ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When her father dies at sea, Lena starts desperately looking for the cause, convinced a sea monster is to blame. Her relentless push against the tide reveals a tale of anger and grief, yet also of the strength and comfort the ocean provides.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, poignant, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ocean, female protagonist, loss, shipwreck, grief, teen superhero, father daughter relationship, sea monster, intimate, resilience, determination, coming of age ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Das, who regularly bunks school, is unhappy with his family as they admire his brother for doing well at school. Tragedy strikes when an accident takes place, and at the same time, Das falls in love.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, emotional, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
family drama, coming of age, relationships, high school life, empathy, teen romance, sibling rivalry, parent child relationship, tragedy, slice of life, family values, bonding ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
48%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, father son relationship, coming of age, family drama, intimate, mental illness, redemption, bittersweet, healing, dark humor, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
45%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An 11-year-old boy struggles to cope with the death of his father while trying to make new friends in an unfamiliar place, after his mother gets a job transfer.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, child, mother son relationship, childhood, grief, child protagonist, loss, coming of age, adolescence, grownups, friends, teenage life ...
Similarity:
44%
297
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Danny movie is all about Daniel Thompson (Mammootty) who looses his parents at a very young age and he strives hard to make a living. Danny
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, melancholic, contemplative ...
Plot:
death, loneliness, grief, loss, isolation, compassion, friendship, social conflict, bittersweet, saxophonist, small town, mourning ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 70s
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, melancholic, art house
Plot:
relationships, intimate, introspection, mediterranean, slice of life, small town, friendship, community, resilience, bittersweet, slow burn, coming of age ...
Place:
sardinia
Similarity:
41%
612
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, ...
Style:
surreal, poignant, existential, tragicomedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, death, household, grief, compassion, loss, empathy, character study, symbolism, pets, mortality, absurdism ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, youth, holiday, family relations, family life, haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, coming of age, father son relationship, reconciliation, healing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family bonds, brothers, realism, loss, grief, small town, healing, family secret, slice of life, reconciliation ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
39%
378
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family relations, grief, family problems, money problems, family business, problem, life is a bitch, satire, financial problem, realism ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
guilt, family relations, father son relationship, miscarriage, children, family drama, guilty conscience, life, relationships, mourning, coming of age, grief ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, atmospheric, tragic ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, disappearance, coming of age, friendship, missing person, loss of innocence, summer, youth, loss, guilt, small town, trauma ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.
Style:
emotional, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
loss of son, family relations, traumatic experience, family business, guilty conscience, mourning, grief, family drama, post war, trauma, coming of age, isolation ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 1940s, 1950s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The death of Christine and the choice to bury her in Acanda lead to the unraveling of unexpected family secrets on the journey to her final resting place.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mourning, family secret, grief, family drama, funeral, mature, flashback, road trip, intimate, regret, siblings, small town ...
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A newly reunited father and son grapple with new beginnings after tragedy, but can they manage to fill the void left by a beloved wife and mother?
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
grief, loss, father son relationship, family drama, healing, mourning, second chance, house, recovery, intimate, parenting, coping ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered world in this emotional and bittersweet coming-of-age drama about those who are left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, grief, sibling rivalry, loss, family drama, adolescence, self discovery, healing, mourning, identity, character study ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, loss, surrogate father, grief, identity, redemption, secrets, healing, midlife crisis, reconciliation, estrangement ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
31%
62
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
This year, seventy year old grumpy Johan is married with his wife Dora for fifty years. But unfortunately, Johan finds there is nothing to celebrate. Something seems missing... Something that's been out of place for all those years. He spends ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, existential, reflective, art house
Plot:
lgbt, repression, mature, regret, identity crisis, identity, loneliness, lgbtq, sexuality, bittersweet, marriage crisis, gay love ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young man's family torn apart by tragedy reaches out to begin rebuilding trust and seek healing by through the only thing that speaks through pain; the healing power of music.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, melancholic, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot:
healing, loss, redemption, grief, faith, intimate, reconciliation, songwriter, mourning, recovery, domestic drama, therapy ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, dark comedy
Plot:
grief, family drama, family relations, healing, reconciliation, mourning, mother son relationship, bereavement, memory, funeral, personal growth, bittersweet ...
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
31%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with ...
Style:
aesthetic, melancholic, emotional, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
disappearance, grief, loss, coming of age, family drama, loss of brother, dysfunctional family, twin brother, family problems, lifestyle, mysterious disappearance, memory ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin's wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, memory, identity, empathy, nostalgia, introspection, healing, bittersweet, intimate, reminiscence, friendship, community ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man helps his grandson readjust by giving him two hound dog puppies to care for.
Style:
emotional, tear jerker, sentimental, pastoral, period piece ...
Plot:
dog, bonding, family drama, loyalty, reconciliation, veteran, healing, family values, coming of age, grandfather, friendship, village life ...
Time:
1900s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, suspense, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, friendship, terminal illness, hospital, empathy, mortality, family drama, fighting illness, cancer patient, life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Style:
thrilling, emotional, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
funeral home, illness, funeral, mortality, terminal illness, male female relationship, teenage life, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, teenage protagonist, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
27%
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