Movies like The Empty Box
If The Empty Box's mix of family, mental health and fatherhood stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Empty Box's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Manchester by the Sea
2016 · Directed by Kenneth Lonergan · 138 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: mental health · From the same decade (2010s)
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where…
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Still Alice
2014 · Directed by Wash Westmoreland · 101 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: family · From the same decade (2010s)
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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Fathers and Daughters
2015 · Directed by Gabriele Muccino · 116 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: family · From the same decade (2010s)
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.
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The Son
2022 · Directed by Florian Zeller · 123 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: mental health
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.