Movies like Diggers
If Diggers's mix of sibling relationship, 1970s and coming of age stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Diggers's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Boogie Nights
1997 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 156 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, coming of age, mother son relationship · Also drama and comedy
In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.
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Dìdi (弟弟)
2024 · Directed by Sean Wang · 94 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, coming of age, mother son relationship · Also comedy and drama
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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20th Century Women
2016 · Directed by Mike Mills · 119 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, coming of age, mother son relationship
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion.
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The Tender Bar
2021 · Directed by George Clooney · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, coming of age, long island, new york
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures.
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Happiness
1998 · Directed by Todd Solondz · 140 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, father son relationship · Also comedy and drama
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
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The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig · 105 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, coming of age · Also comedy and drama
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · Directed by Tamara Jenkins · 91 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, coming of age · Also comedy and drama
In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
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Forrest Gump
1994 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 142 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, mother son relationship · Also comedy and drama
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do.
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The Nice Guys
2016 · Directed by Shane Black · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, father daughter relationship
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
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The Lion King
1994 · Directed by Roger Allers · 89 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, father son relationship
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself.
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Shiva Baby
2021 · Directed by Emma Seligman · 78 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also comedy and drama
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
2005 · Directed by Miranda July · 91 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged.