Movies like Monuments
If Monuments's mix of loss of loved one, jukebox and road trip stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Monuments's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Demolition
2016 · Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée · 101 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, grieving widower, mourning · Also comedy and drama
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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This Is Where I Leave You
2014 · Directed by Shawn Levy · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: family, mourning, grieving · Also drama and comedy
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
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The Straight Story
1999 · Directed by David Lynch · 112 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: road trip, family
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in…
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Uncle Frank
2020 · Directed by Alan Ball · 95 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: road trip, family · From the same decade (2020s)
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Reservation Road
2007 · Directed by Terry George · 102 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, family
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead.
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Short Cuts
1993 · Directed by Robert Altman · 188 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · Also drama and comedy
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car.
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The Road Within
2014 · Directed by Gren Wells · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: road trip · Also comedy and drama
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
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Thunder Road
2018 · Directed by Jim Cummings · 91 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dramedy · Also comedy and drama
A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
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Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!
2011 · Directed by Arlene Sanford · 80 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: road trip · Also comedy and drama
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs.
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The Last Word
2017 · Directed by Mark Pellington · 108 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: road trip · Also comedy and drama
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
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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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Nomadland
2021 · Directed by Chloé Zhao · 108 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: road trip · From the same decade (2020s)
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.