Most Similar Movies to The Namesake (2006)


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Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Nowhere in Africa (2001), Brooklyn (2015), Good Ol' Boy (2015), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), The Member of the Wedding (1952), Picture Bride (1994) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Moonlight and Valentino (1995)

Moonlight and Valentino (1995)

5.7/10 Comedy, Drama

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

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Nowhere in Africa (2001)

Nowhere in Africa (2001)

8.5/10 Drama

A Jewish lawyer (Merab Ninidze), his wife (Juliane Köhler) and their 5-year-old daughter move to Kenya in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.

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Brooklyn (2015)

Brooklyn (2015)

7.5/10 Romance, Drama

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

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Good Ol' Boy (2015)

Good Ol' Boy (2015)

7.3/10 Comedy, Drama

Recently relocated from India, a 10-year-old boy must deal with his overbearing father pushing his Indian heritage on him every second of every day.

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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

7.1/10 Drama

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish b...Read all

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The Member of the Wedding (1952)

The Member of the Wedding (1952)

6.9/10 Drama, Comedy

A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

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Picture Bride (1994)

Picture Bride (1994)

6.6/10 Drama

Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.

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Santa Mesa (2008)

Santa Mesa (2008)

6.0/10 Drama, Other, Comedy, Fantasy

A photographer takes a troubled young Philipino boy under his wing. Starring Jaime Tirelli (TV's Kidnapped) and Oscar Winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter).

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Some Things That Stay (2004)

Some Things That Stay (2004)

5.8/10 Drama

During the 1950s, a teenage girl named Tamara Anderson (Katie Boland) moves to a rural town with her liberal family, which includes her artist father, Stuart (Stuart Wilson) ; her mother, Liz (Alberta Watson) ; and a younger brother and sister. At first Tamara enjoys country life, and begins a romance with Rusty Murphy (Kevin Zegers), a handsome farm boy. But when her mother falls ill with tuberculosis while her father is out of town painting, she is left to care for her younger siblings.

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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

8.1/10 Drama

In 1970 a Jewish neighbor (Germano Haiut) takes in a Brazilian boy (Michel Joelsas) whose parents are fugitives and whose grandfather has unexpectedly died.

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Heat and Dust (1983)

Heat and Dust (1983)

7.9/10 Drama

An Englishwoman's (Julie Christie) affair in India parallels her great-aunt's (Greta Scacchi) 1920s scandal.

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The Edge of Heaven (2007)

The Edge of Heaven (2007)

7.8/10 Drama

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

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English Vinglish (2012)

English Vinglish (2012)

7.8/10 Comedy, Drama, Family

A quiet, sweet tempered housewife endures small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter every day because of her inability to speak and understand English.

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Little Women (2019)

Little Women (2019)

7.8/10 Drama

Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

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Four Friends (1981)

Four Friends (1981)

7.8/10 Drama

A Yugoslav emigrant (Craig Wasson), his two buddies and their girlfriend (Jodi Thelen) grow up in the 1960s.

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Twelve and Holding (2005)

Twelve and Holding (2005)

7.3/10 Drama

After bullies cause the death of an adolescent, the lives of his identical twin (Conor Donovan) and his friends become further complicated as they try to deal with their grief.

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

7.3/10 Drama

A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

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Almanya - Welcome to Germany (2011)

Almanya - Welcome to Germany (2011)

7.2/10 Comedy, Drama

The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family.

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