Movies like Ghosts
If Ghosts's mix of friendship, berlin, germany and unsociability stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ghosts's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Phoenix
2014 · Directed by Christian Petzold · 98 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Christian Petzold · Shares: berlin, germany · Also a German drama
In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz.
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Flightplan
2005 · Directed by Robert Schwentke · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: berlin, germany, loss of loved one, baby-snatching · From the same decade (2000s)
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard.
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Run Lola Run
1998 · Directed by Tom Tykwer · 80 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: berlin, germany · Also a German drama
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, hope
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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The Shack
2017 · Directed by Stuart Hazeldine · 132 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Mr. Church
2016 · Directed by Bruce Beresford · 104 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: friendship
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Hamlet
1996 · Directed by Kenneth Branagh · 242 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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TÁR
2022 · Directed by Todd Field · 158 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: berlin, germany
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
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The Lovely Bones
2009 · Directed by Peter Jackson · 136 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · From the same decade (2000s)
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire…
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White Oleander
2002 · Directed by Peter Kosminsky · 109 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · From the same decade (2000s)
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Alone in Berlin
2016 · Directed by Vincent Perez · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: berlin, germany
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front.
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Rabbit Hole
2010 · Directed by John Cameron Mitchell · 91 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.