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Movies Like Places We Knew

If you liked Places We Knew (2024), a drama movie directed by Oliver Staton, 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 Sea of Trees

    The Sea of Trees (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

  2. 2Magnolia

    Magnolia (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…

  3. 3The Nest

    The Nest (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…

  4. 4Babel

    Babel (2006)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

  5. 5Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  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. 7Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  8. 8Euphoria

    Euphoria (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where…

  9. 9Sweet Girl

    Sweet Girl (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

  10. 10Blue Bayou

    Blue Bayou (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever…

  11. 11Return to the Blue Lagoon

    Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

  12. 12Minari

    Minari (2020)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and…

  13. 13Hesher

    Hesher (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

  14. 14If Anything Happens I Love You

    If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

  15. 15Reservation Road

    Reservation Road (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in…

  16. 16Topside

    Topside (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are…

  17. 17Inheritance

    Inheritance (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.

  18. 18The Glass House

    The Glass House (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the…

  19. 19Bird

    Bird (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

  20. 20The 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.

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