Movies Like Cemetery of Courtesy
If you liked Cemetery of Courtesy (2017), a movie directed by Keat Aun Chong, 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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First They Killed My Father (2017)
★ 7.4/10A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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The Hate U Give (2018)
★ 8.1/10Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds…
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1992 (2024)
★ 6.9/10In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own…
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Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7/10After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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The Other Woman (2010)
★ 6.2/10Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless…
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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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A Man Called Otto (2022)
★ 7.7/10When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
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Little Big Women (2020)
★ 7.1/10A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds…
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Catch and Release (2006)
★ 5.9/10For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.
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American Pastoral (2016)
★ 6.2/10Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
★ 7.3/10A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
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My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…
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The Road Home (1999)
★ 7.4/10Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
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Across the Universe (2007)
★ 7.1/10When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing…
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A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
★ 8.2/10A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
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On Chesil Beach (2018)
★ 6.1/10In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10A 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.
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Lan Yu (2001)
★ 7.2/10A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
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Beaches (1988)
★ 6.7/10A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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The World to Come (2021)
★ 7/10In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.