Movies like Riverside Mukolitta
If Riverside Mukolitta's mix of factory worker, funeral and crematorium stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Riverside Mukolitta's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Directed by Hayao Miyazaki · 86 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: new neighbor · Also a Japanese family film
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest.
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Our Little Sister
2015 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 127 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: funeral · Also a Japanese drama
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
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The Old Oak
2023 · Directed by Ken Loach · 113 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: empathetic, hopeful · From the same decade (2020s)
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
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The Secret Life of Bees
2008 · Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood · 114 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: hopeful · Also family and drama
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…
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Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 138 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: new neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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Tokyo Story
1953 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo.
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Nobody Knows
2004 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 141 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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Loving Vincent
2017 · Directed by DK Welchman · 95 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: compassionate
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 113 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · Directed by André Øvredal · 86 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: crematorium, thunderstorm
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying…
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Still Walking
2008 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 114 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
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Ponyo
2008 · Directed by Hayao Miyazaki · 100 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese family film
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for.