20 movies like Under the Same Moon, ordered by similarity : Two Bits(1995), Fatima(2015), Mother of Mine(2005), Time to Leave(2005), After the Storm(2016), Fruitvale Station(2013), Incendies(2010), Wildlife(2018), To Sleep With Anger(1990), Real Women Have Curves(2002), The Inheritance(2003), Between Strangers(2002) ...
Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Adrian Alonso Kate del Castillo Eugenio Derbez Maya Zapata America Ferrera Jesse Garcia Carmen Salinas Gabriel Porras
cleaning lady child grandmother inspiring emotional los angeles border journey illegal immigration working class loneliness family discovery sacrifice 2000s
After his grandmother dies, a Mexican boy (Adrian Alonso) sets out to join his mother (Kate del Castillo) in the United States.
Drama
USA
1995
85 Minutes
Jerry Barone Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Al Pacino Joe Grifasi Joanna Merlin Andy Romano Ron McLarty Patrick Borriello Donna Mitchell Mary Lou Rosato Rosemary DeAngelis
boy child grandfather family family member charming emotional heartwarming melodramatic moving sad united states city suburb slum movie theater economic crisis family life family tragedy family secrets
Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
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.
Drama, History
Finland|Sweden
2005
105 Minutes
Topi Majaniemi Marjaana Maijala Maria Lundqvist Michael Nyqvist Esko Salminen Aino-Maija Tikkanen Brasse Brännström Marie Göranzon Kari-Pekka Toivonen Åsa Persson Leif Andrée
young boy elderly man mother depressed person refugee foster mother bleak emotional profound finland family home sweden war zone foster home world war ii new life journey family coming of age childhood
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina - Som om jag inte fanns (2002)), "... See full summary »
Drama
France
2005
80 Minutes
Melvil Poupaud Jeanne Moreau Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Daniel Duval Marie Rivière Christian Sengewald Louise-Anne Hippeau Henri de Lorme Walter Pagano Ugo Soussan Trabelsi
photographer partner waitress husband sister grandmother intricate moving calm photography studio paris loft family home truck stop café terminal illness family self-discovery loneliness impotence
A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Drama
USA
2013
85 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Octavia Spencer Melonie Diaz Ahna O'Reilly Kevin Durand Chad Michael Murray Joey Oglesby Laurel Moglen Liisa Cohen Ariana Neal Alex Alessandro Garcia
young man black man girlfriend daughter mother police officer gritty inspiring disheartening sad somber oakland, calif. subway family home city accidental death racial profiling race relations family parent/child relationship
The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Drama
Canada|France
2010
130 Minutes
Lubna Azabal Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin Maxim Gaudette Rémy Girard Allen Altman Mohamed Majd Baya Belal Abdelghafour Elaaziz Nabil Sawalha
mother sister father brother employer lawyer profound tense powerful gripping montreal notary office family home small town middle east family secrets self-discovery journey estrangement twins
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Drama
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jake Gyllenhaal Ed Oxenbould Bill Camp Zoe Colletti Travis W. Bruyer Darryl Cox Mollie Milligan
teen boy golfer housewife firefighter mother friend bleak emotional tense intricate raw montana forest school house car small town mother/child relationship father/child relationship marriage
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Drama
USA
1990
102 Minutes
Danny Glover Paul Butler Mary Alice Richard Brooks Carl Lumbly Sheryl Lee Ralph Vonetta McGee Wonderful Smith Ethel Ayler
vagabond guest father mother son daughter-in-law uneasy dark powerful emotional los angeles family home street living room kitchen bedroom hospitality friendship family dysfunction illness
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
93 Minutes
America Ferrera Lupe Ontiveros Ingrid Oliu George Lopez Brian Sites Jorge Cervera Jr. Felipe de Alba Soledad St. Hilaire Lourdes Perez Jose Gerardo Zamora Jr. Manuel Edgar Lujan
student seamstress teacher grandmother mother latina inspiring moving los angeles workshop house high school education self-esteem virginity tradition family dysfunction race relations discovery growing up
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
Drama
2003
107 Minutes
Ulrich Thomsen Lisa Werlinder Ghita Nørby Lars Brygmann Karina Skands Peter Steen Ulf Pilgaard Diana Axelsen Jesper Christensen Dick Kaysø Thomas Rode Andersen
heir wife actress brother-in-law mother gripping emotional intense funeral factory family home denmark stockholm responsibility inheritance family money family business suicide love
A man (Ulrich Thomsen) grudgingly returns to Denmark with his Swedish wife (Lisa Werlinder) to run his father's steel mill at the request of his mother (Ghita Nørby).
Drama
Canada|Italy
2002
95 Minutes
Sophia Loren Mira Sorvino Deborah Kara Unger Pete Postlethwaite Klaus Maria Brandauer Gérard Depardieu Malcolm McDowell Wendy Crewson
wife mother cellist photographer artist estranged father ex-convict family friend stranger inspiring uplifting touching tender toronto canada secret discovery art journey
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India|UK
2007
140 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Tabu Paresh Rawal Zohra Segal Vinay Jain Krishna Bhatt Kanwal Toor Nikhil Ratnaparkhi Pradeep Shukla Jameel Khan
older man mother restaurant owner young woman fiancée restaurant employee offbeat emotional london family home restaurant kitchen india city courtship family dysfunction romance journey relationships disapproval
An egotistical 64-year-old chef and confirmed bachelor falls for a woman 30 years his junior.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
2010
82 Minutes
Wunmi Mosaku Isaach De Bankolé Igal Naor Nyokabi Gethaiga Nasser Memarzia Selva Rasalingam Amaar Sardharwalla Jameel Sardharwalla
girl slave family member soldier englishwoman child brooding dark emotional sudan village london house car street slavery hope desperation family fitting in
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom.
Drama
2011
90 Minutes
Diane Lane Robert Pulcini Tim Robbins James Gandolfini Patrick Fugit Kathleen Quinlan Lolita Davidovich Shanna Collins Thomas Dekker
family documentarian american father mother child passionate outlandish emotional fiery intense melodramatic family home california new york film set united states documentary filmmaking affair cheating
In the 1970s Bill Loud (Tim Robbins) and his wife, Pat (Diane Lane), allow cameras to film their personal lives for the PBS series "An American Family."
Comedy, Drama
Canada
2017
86 Minutes
Kathleen Turner Kevin Zegers Jessica Paré Frances Fisher Jacob Tierney Jessica Parker Kennedy David La Haye Cristina Rosato Luke Kirby Wallace Shawn
bride groom brother father mother family member amusing hilarious emotional tense unrestrained outlandish hotel wedding restaurant coffee shop van wedding family dysfunction parent/child relationship
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
Drama
UK|Austria
2017
101 Minutes
Lucy Boynton Stanley Weber Jodhi May Juliet Stevenson Elizabeth Webster Abhin Galeya Éva Magyar Sevda Levent
mother daughter ghost granddaughter great-grandmother moving emotional gripping engaging heartwarming inspiring vienna england austria life family family secrets abandonment journey death
Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance, Action
India
2002
171 Minutes
family family patriarch family member lover young woman young man charming endearing engaging intense heartwarming melodramatic family dinner party celebration family feud cultural differences attraction friendship relationships
Two feuding neighboring families are brought together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Vishnupratap Singh (Vikram Gokhale) and his wife (Farida Jalal), much to the dislike of Rudra ... See full summary »
Drama
Japan
2008
114 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe You Yoshio Harada Ryôga Hayashi Haruko Kato Kirin Kiki Yui Natsukawa Hotaru Nomoto Kazuya Takahashi Shohei Tanaka
mother father son wife daughter stranger emotional dark family home japan family dysfunction grief death discovery transformation 2000s
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Drama
USA|Canada
2018
108 Minutes
Ben Foster Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie Jeff Kober Dale Dickey Isaiah Stone Michael Draper Dana Millican Ayanna Berkshire
father daughter homeless person ex-soldier social worker young girl emotional engaging gripping inspiring intense moving portland, ore. park house woods family isolation alternative lifestyles outsiders
A father and his thirteen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.