Movies Like The Rest is Flowers
If you liked The Rest is Flowers (2020), a drama movie directed by Dale John Allen, 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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Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaIn 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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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaGrieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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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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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Mass (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaTwo couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollowing the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAfter 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…
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Goodbye June (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFour siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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Cardboard Boxer (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaGentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
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Falling (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaJohn Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very…
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Reservation Road (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaTwo 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…
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaThe story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
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Magnolia (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaOn 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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Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaBobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much…
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…
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August Rush (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaEvan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…
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Birth (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaIt 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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Johan (1976)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaJohan details the director's quest for an actor to play his titular lover, the real deal having been incarcerated just prior to shooting on charges of petty theft.