Movies like Bounce
If Bounce's mix of stroke of fate, chance and loss of loved one stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Bounce's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Shack
2017 · Directed by Stuart Hazeldine · 132 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, guilt
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Things We Lost in the Fire
2007 · Directed by Susanne Bier · 113 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, widow · From the same decade (2000s)
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Hamnet
2025 · Directed by Chloé Zhao · 125 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: grief · Also drama and romance
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
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What Dreams May Come
1998 · Directed by Vincent Ward · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: death of husband · Also drama and romance
After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there.
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The Shining
1980 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: alcoholism, alcoholic
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.
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Regretting You
2025 · Directed by Josh Boone · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: death of husband · Also romance and drama
Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.
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Top Gun
1986 · Directed by Tony Scott · 110 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · Also drama and romance
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true.
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When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 · Directed by Luis Mandoki · 126 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: alcoholic · Also drama and romance
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · Directed by Ned Benson · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · Also drama and romance
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
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Ghost
1990 · Directed by Jerry Zucker · 127 min7.2
Why you'll like itWith Tony Goldwyn
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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The Flight of the Phoenix
1965 · Directed by Robert Aldrich · 142 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: alcoholic
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the…
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Fathers and Daughters
2015 · Directed by Gabriele Muccino · 116 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: widow
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.