Movies like Misunderstood
If Misunderstood's mix of affectation, grief and growing up stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Misunderstood's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Soul
2020 · Directed by Pete Docter · 101 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: calm, gentle
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the…
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How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · Directed by Chris Sanders · 98 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: playful, gentle
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle.
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Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Directed by Pete Docter · 92 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: playful, gentle
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis.
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8½
1963 · Directed by Federico Fellini · 139 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama · From the same decade (1960s)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors,…
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Boyhood
2014 · Directed by Richard Linklater · 165 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: growing up
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his…
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Mr. Church
2016 · Directed by Bruce Beresford · 104 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: gentle
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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Saturn in Opposition
2007 · Directed by Ferzan Özpetek · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared.
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The Hummingbird
2022 · Directed by Francesca Archibugi · 126 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s…
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The Raffle
1991 · Directed by Francesco Laudadio · 93 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.
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Rabbit Hole
2010 · Directed by John Cameron Mitchell · 91 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: grief
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Beast
2018 · Directed by Michael Pearce · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: affectation
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.