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Movies Like Grief in America

If you liked Grief in America, a movie, 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. 1Cake

    Cake (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

  2. 2Rabbit Hole

    Rabbit Hole (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

  3. 3A Ghost Story

    A Ghost Story (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and…

  4. 4Hereditary

    Hereditary (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.

  5. 5Pieces of a Woman

    Pieces of a Woman (2020)

    ★ 7/10

    When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside…

  6. 6Midsommar

    Midsommar (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets…

  7. 7Love Happens

    Love Happens (2009)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late…

  8. 8Lilting

    Lilting (2014)

    ★ 7/10

    A 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.

  9. 9Reservation Road

    Reservation Road (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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…

  10. 10Death at a Funeral

    Death at a Funeral (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

  11. 11Black or White

    Black or White (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

  12. 12Mr. Harrigan's Phone

    Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead…

  13. 13Our Friend

    Our Friend (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.

  14. 14Things We Lost in the Fire

    Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

  15. 15Apocalypto

    Apocalypto (2006)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits…

  16. 16Eulogy

    Eulogy (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.

  17. 17Jack Frost

    Jack Frost (1998)

    ★ 6/10

    A father who can't keep his promises dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has one final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.

  18. 18Manchester by the Sea

    Manchester by the Sea (2016)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where…

  19. 19Bounce

    Bounce (2000)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a…

  20. 20Don't Look Now

    Don't Look Now (1973)

    ★ 6.9/10

    While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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