Movies like Ballast

20 movies like Ballast, ordered by similarity : Sweet Sixteen(2002), I Never Sang for My Father(1970), Lady Bird(2017), Staying Together(1989), Somers Town(2008), Loveling(2018), Wildlife(2018), Dean(2016), The Confirmation(2016), Mum's List(2016), Life Is Beautiful(1997), Never Steady, Never Still(2017) ...

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Ballast

A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives.

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Sweet Sixteen

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

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I Never Sang for My Father

A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).

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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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Staying Together

The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.

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Somers Town

A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

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Loveling

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.

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Wildlife

A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.

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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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The Confirmation

A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.

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Mum's List

A woman dying of incurable breast cancer creates a list of memories and lessons for the husband and sons she is about to leave behind.

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Life Is Beautiful

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

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Never Steady, Never Still

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Hallam Foe

Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

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My Bill

The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Widowed Mrs. Reginald Colbrook - Mary - has had to manage the family... See full summary »

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Tokyo Sonata

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

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I'm Reed Fish

As he is about to be married to the sweetheart of his small town, Reed Fish's (Jay Baruchel) life turns upside down with an old flame's return.

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The Escape

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

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C.R.A.Z.Y.

A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father's conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.

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Second Best

Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?

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