Most Similar Movies to Yaaba (1989)


If you are looking for movies like Yaaba (1989), you might like movies tagged with keyword : drama, family, village life, child's perspective, tradition, social outcasts, coming of age, poverty, rural, cultural conflict, heartwarming, humanity, social prejudice, independent film, realism, simple living, healing, social exclusion, touching, african cinema .


A Good Baby (1999), Amanda (2018), A Peck on the Cheek (2002), Run the Wild Fields (2000), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), Tulpan (2008), Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

A Good Baby (1999)

A Good Baby (1999)

6.9/10 Drama

A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.

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Amanda (2018)

Amanda (2018)

9.6/10 Drama

When 20-year-old David's elder sister is brutally killed in an attack, he takes charge of his 7-year-old niece, Amanda.

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A Peck on the Cheek (2002)

A Peck on the Cheek (2002)

8.4/10 Drama

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.

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Run the Wild Fields (2000)

Run the Wild Fields (2000)

7.8/10 Drama

Ruby Miller (Joanne Whalley) has put her life on hold. Her husband, after leaving to fight in World War II, has been missing in action for years. Ruby tends their North Carolina farm and rears their daughter, Pug (Alexa Vega), but cannot bring herself to think about the future. One day a drifter named Tom Walker (Sean Patrick Flanery) arrives in town. Ruby hires him to do some odd jobs around the farm, but he gradually assumes a much more vital role for her and her daughter.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

7.3/10 Drama, Adventure, Fantasy

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

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Tulpan (2008)

Tulpan (2008)

7.1/10 Comedy, Drama

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppe...Read all

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Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002)

Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002)

7.1/10 Drama

In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.

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A Home of Our Own (1993)

A Home of Our Own (1993)

7.1/10 Drama

Widow Frances Lacey is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children. Also, her oldest son, Shayne, is constantly in trouble. When she's fired from her job, she decides to abandon Los Angeles.

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Treeless Mountain (2008)

Treeless Mountain (2008)

7.0/10 Drama

In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.

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Tilai (1990)

Tilai (1990)

6.9/10 Drama

Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous. When the liaison is discovered, Saga's ...Read all

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Second Best (1994)

Second Best (1994)

6.8/10 Drama

Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?

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Soul Boy (2010)

Soul Boy (2010)

6.7/10 Family, Drama

A Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.

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A Test of Love (1985)

A Test of Love (1985)

6.7/10 Drama

Due to an ignorant misdiagnosis, a three-year-old disabled girl was institutionalized and subsequently spent her entire childhood in a hospital for the severely retarded. A caring therapist helped her to prove her intellectual capability.

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Adopt a Highway (2019)

Adopt a Highway (2019)

6.3/10 Drama

An ex-felon discovers a live baby left in a dumpster.

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Virgin Mountain (2015)

Virgin Mountain (2015)

9.2/10 Drama

Fusi, a 43-year-old man who still lives with his mother, goes about his monotonous routine until he meets Alma and Hera.

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Barefoot Boy (1938)

Barefoot Boy (1938)

5.7/10 Drama

Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefoot...Read all

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In America (2002)

In America (2002)

8.9/10 Drama

A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from Ireland and search for success in New York.

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Pranzo di Ferragosto (2008)

Pranzo di Ferragosto (2008)

8.8/10 Comedy, Drama

In order to work off a debt, a man (Gianni Di Gregorio) takes care of four elderly women during an important Italian holiday.

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