Movies like A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

20 movies like A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, ordered by similarity : Lady Bird(2017), A Taste of Honey(1961), Fast Color(2018), A Majority of One(1961), Lady for a Day(1933), National Velvet(1944), Saving Face(2004), Terms of Endearment(1983), Stella Dallas(1937), Fatima(2015), Funny Bones(1995), Volver(2006) ...

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »

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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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A Taste of Honey

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

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Fast Color

After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

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A Majority of One

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness.

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Lady for a Day

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

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National Velvet

A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.

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Saving Face

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

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Terms of Endearment

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.

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Stella Dallas

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

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Fatima

After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.

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Funny Bones

An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.

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Volver

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

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Two Friends

Two Australian teenage girls (Emma Coles, Kris Bidenko) go from best friends to ex-friends in a year.

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The Meddler

An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.

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Rachel Getting Married

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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I Ought to Be in Pictures

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has ... See full summary »

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Next of Kin

Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.

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Unhook the Stars

After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.

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Dean

An illustrator falls in love with a woman while trying to keep his father from burning down the family home after his wife dies.

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Okaasan

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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