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Movies Like This Place

If you liked This Place (2026), a drama movie directed by Jaime Pacena II, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  2. 2Tigertail

    Tigertail (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

  3. 3Skin

    Skin (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  4. 4What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

  5. 5TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  6. 6Hereafter

    Hereafter (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

  7. 7I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  8. 8Moving

    Moving (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

  9. 9The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

  10. 10Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  11. 11A Question of Faith

    A Question of Faith (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

  12. 12Home

    Home (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

  13. 13The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal…

  14. 14The House on Carroll Street

    The House on Carroll Street (1988)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…

  15. 15Mr. Church

    Mr. Church (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    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.

  16. 16Skater Girl

    Skater Girl (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

  17. 17The Color of Friendship

    The Color of Friendship (2000)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from…

  18. 18Light of My Life

    Light of My Life (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

  19. 19Good Day, Ramon

    Good Day, Ramon (2013)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely…

  20. 20Maborosi

    Maborosi (1995)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

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