Movies Like Ashes
If you liked Ashes (2021), a drama movie directed by Oscar Rutishauser-Mills, 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.
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Hot Milk (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaRose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a…
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
★ 7/10Also dramaAccused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Nowhere Special (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaJohn, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he…
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The Judge (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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Fences (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaIn 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
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The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
★ 6/10Also dramaUnder the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy…
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Dad (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…
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Lilting (2014)
★ 7/10Also dramaA young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
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Lion (2016)
★ 8/10Also dramaA five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his…
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The Last Rodeo (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA retired rodeo legend risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bullriding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he…
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Extraordinary Measures (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaWorking-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the…
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Courageous (2011)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaLaw enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are…
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Stillwater (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaBill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers…
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The Old Oak (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA 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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A Home of Our Own (1993)
★ 7/10Also dramaIn 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous…
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A Better Life (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAn Indigenous Latino American gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
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Good One (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaOn a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.