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Movies Like Natsukashii

If you liked Natsukashii, a drama movie directed by Lucy Downham, 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. 1Mr. 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.

  2. 2Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  3. 3Aftersun

    Aftersun (2022)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…

  4. 4Tigertail

    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.

  5. 5Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  6. 6Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  7. 7Interiors

    Interiors (1978)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment…

  8. 8Lorelei

    Lorelei (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.

  9. 9Flashbacks of a Fool

    Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into…

  10. 10The Human Voice

    The Human Voice (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

  11. 11The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  12. 12Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  13. 13Home

    Home (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

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

  14. 14The Long Day Closes

    The Long Day Closes (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another…

  15. 15Another Woman

    Another Woman (1988)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in…

  16. 16Here

    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.

  17. 17Wakefield

    Wakefield (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

  18. 18Beast

    Beast (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

  19. 19Mo' Better Blues

    Mo' Better Blues (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend…

  20. 20Off the Map

    Off the Map (2003)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

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