Movies Like Mamanam
If you liked Mamanam (2020), a drama movie directed by Linda-Schiwa Klinkhammer, 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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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995)
★ 7/10Also drama71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
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Sight (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaMing Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang…
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…
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Night Crossing (1982)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaTwo men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
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Kisses (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaTwo kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
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The Tin Drum (1979)
★ 7/10Also dramaIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
★ 8.3/10Also dramaGeorge Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas…
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Benny's Video (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
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Woman in Gold (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaMaria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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The Bridge Part 2 (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThe second-half of the movie picks up in the present day, seven years later, with Ryan returning home from being on the road touring as a professional singer and Molly working at her father's corporation.
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Skin (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaBased on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Asphalt (1929)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaStarring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin…
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Jerichow (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIn a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's gorgeous wife.
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Flowers in the Attic (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAfter the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
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Paris, Texas (1984)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
★ 7/10Also dramaAfter a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
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Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaSecond chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
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M (1931)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he…
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Sound of Falling (2025)
★ 7/10Also dramaFour adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters…
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Conspiracy (2001)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.