Movies Like Mi Ofrenda
If you liked Mi Ofrenda (2024), a movie directed by Melba Martinez, 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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Lilting (2014)
★ 7/10A 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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Love of Your Life (2026)
★ 6.7/10After a chance encounter sparks a sweeping romance, Maya's future is suddenly upended, sending her on an unexpected journey to love and live again.
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Poetic Justice (1993)
★ 6.7/10Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift…
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
★ 6.6/10Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Other People (2016)
★ 6.4/10David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the…
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The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Hereditary (2018)
★ 7.3/10When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
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Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
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Demolition (2016)
★ 6.9/10An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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See You on Venus (2023)
★ 7/10Mia and Kyle, two misfit American teens, travel to Spain in search of Mia's birth mother. As the pair road trip through the picturesque cities of Andalusia and fall in love, they discover that the most important…
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Birth (2004)
★ 6.1/10It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy…
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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A Single Man (2009)
★ 7.3/10Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of…
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Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Magnolia (1999)
★ 7.7/10On 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…
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Hot Milk (2025)
★ 5.9/10Rose 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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Mothers' Instinct (2024)
★ 6.8/10Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…
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The Meddler (2016)
★ 5.9/10With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter…
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Bridegroom (2013)
★ 7.3/10A documentary that tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving and committed relationship — a relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep off the side of a roof.