Movies Like Kakurenbo
If you liked Kakurenbo (2009), a movie directed by John H. Ladue Jr., 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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Caveat (2021)
★ 6.3/10A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
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Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 5.9/10When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
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How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
★ 6.4/10Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
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Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
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House of D (2004)
★ 6.3/10In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression…
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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I Met a Girl (2020)
★ 6.4/10An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his…
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Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie (2014)
★ 7.2/10If one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors who find themselves isolated in some corner of Japan to carry out…
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The Invisible (2007)
★ 6.4/10After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
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The Sea of Trees (2016)
★ 6.2/10In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
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Love Me Love Me (2026)
★ 6.1/10After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in…
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Moon the Panda (2025)
★ 6.5/10Due to his poor academic performance, twelve-year-old Tian is sent to live with his grandmother in the remote mountains of Sichuan. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, he finds himself immersed in nature and…
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
★ 6.2/10An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
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Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
★ 6.6/10When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
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47 Ronin (2013)
★ 6.2/10Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the…
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River Wild (2023)
★ 6.4/10Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.
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Too Late Blues (1961)
★ 6.4/10Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…
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Turtles All the Way Down (2024)
★ 7.2/10Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.