20 movies like The Hedgehog, ordered by similarity : Stuck in Love(2012), I'm Going Home(2001), A Man Called Ove(2015), Shoplifters(2018), Wondrous Oblivion(2003), Different for Girls(1996), General Spanky(1936), Custody(2016), Miracle on 34th Street(1947), Raising Flagg(2006), Housekeeping(1987), Some Freaks(2016) ...
Comedy, Drama
2009
100 Minutes
Josiane Balasko Togo Igawa Garance Le Guillermic Anne Brochet Ariane Ascaride Wladimir Yordanoff Jean-Luc Porraz Gisèle Casadesus Mona Heftre Valérie Karsenti Sarah Le Picard
hedgehog child neighbor engaging court tenement house fate suicide peace growing up
While planning her suicide, a precocious 11-year-old (Garance Le Guillermic) befriends a new neighbor (Togo Igawa) and a prickly recluse (Josiane Balasko).
Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
97 Minutes
Greg Kinnear Jennifer Connelly Lily Collins Logan Lerman Nat Wolff Patrick Schwarzenegger Liana Liberato Kristen Bell Michael Goodwin
author child parent father daughter son neighbor love interest romantic interest ex-wife engaging lighthearted inspiring playful mushy positive united states house beach bar
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Comedy, Drama
France|Portugal
2001
90 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Antoine Chappey Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich Leonor Baldaque Leonor Silveira
actor director grandson actress agent nanny sad profound emotional tender paris theater café film set house france tragic death aging retirement mourning
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
Comedy, Drama
Sweden
2015
116 Minutes
Rolf Lassgård Bahar Pars Zozan Akgün Tobias Almborg Filip Berg Ida Engvoll Klas Wiljergård Chatarina Larsson Börje Lundberg Stefan Gödicke Johan Widerberg
old man neighbor friend government official senior citizen widower confident endearing heartwarming sad touching amusing neighborhood house cemetery suburb sweden living room solitude neighbors
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Japan
2018
121 Minutes
Lily Franky Sakura Andô Mayu Matsuoka Kirin Kiki Jyo Kairi Miyu Sasaki Sôsuke Ikematsu
shoplifter man outsider child orphan abusive father engaging playful charming amusing emotional melodramatic japan house prison family happiness shoplifting child abuse crime
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Comedy, Drama
France|UK|Germany
2003
106 Minutes
Sam Smith Delroy Lindo Emily Woof Stanley Townsend Angela Wynter Leonie Elliott Naomi Simpson Jo Stone-Fewings Gary McDonald
young boy father daughter mother engaging positive london suburbia neighborhood friendship interracial relationship neighbors moving cricket sports discovery growing up 1960s
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven.
Comedy, Drama
UK|France
1996
92 Minutes
Steven Mackintosh Rupert Graves Miriam Margolyes Saskia Reeves Neil Dudgeon Charlotte Coleman Stephen Walker Blake Ritson
transsexual bad boy police officer childhood friend touching cheeky catholic school street house office court cross-dressing running away homosexuality childhood redemption love transformation 1970s
Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1936
73 Minutes
George "Spanky" McFarland Phillips Holmes Ralph Morgan Irving Pichel Rosina Lawrence William "Buckwheat' Thomas Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Hobart Bosworth Robert Middlemass Jimmy Burtis
child soldier gambler runaway slave shoeshine boy amusing playful spirited mississippi river riverboat house american south american civil war children during wartime childhood friends orphans on the run imagination adventure
A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.
Drama
USA
2016
104 Minutes
Viola Davis Hayden Panettiere Catalina Sandino Moreno Ellen Burstyn Dan Fogler Jaden Michael Bryce Lorenzo Nicholas L. Ashe Julius Tennon Karen Pittman
judge latina mother lawyer woman american african-american woman emotional tense engaging gripping positive court courtroom new york new york city united states america court battles court decision
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Comedy, Other, Drama
USA
1947
96 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara John Payne Edmund Gwenn Gene Lockhart Natalie Wood Porter Hall William Frawley Thelma Ritter Jack Albertson Jerome Cowan Philip Tonge
santa claus lawyer daughter event coordinator wealthy man charming endearing touching new york city department store courtroom mental institution christmas faith childhood court battles discovery love quest 1940s
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.
Comedy, Drama
2006
102 Minutes
Alan Arkin Lauren Holly Glenne Headly Barbara Dana Austin Pendleton Matthew Arkin Richard Kind Clifton James Stephanie Lemelin Dawn Maxey Daniel Quinn
old man wife daughter townsperson lawyer neighbor amusing endearing small town house neighborhood faking death aging life lessons family bad behavior community underdog transformation love
A cantankerous handyman (Alan Arkin) retreats to his bed and calls for a reunion with his estranged children after his lawsuit causes his community to turn against him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1987
117 Minutes
Christine Lahti Sara Walker Andrea Burchill Anne Pitoniak Barbara Reese Bill Smillie Wayne Robson Margot Pinvidic
sister aunt niece orphan woman neighbor madcap offbeat emotional amusing pacific northwest small town household woods living room small-town life family dysfunction suicide coming of age fitting in
After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA|Mexico
2016
97 Minutes
Thomas Mann Lily Mae Harrington Ely Henry Marin Ireland Lachlan Buchanan Nikki Massoud Shannon Hartman Sylvia Kates
high-school student young woman friend girlfriend emotional confident passionate offbeat high school prom house party hospital growing up romance physical appearance physical disability growing up love pursuit
A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
85 Minutes
Jesse Wakeman Kris Avedisian Louisa Krause Ted Arcidi Shawn Contois Kate Fitzgerald Patrick Languzzi Robby Morse Levy Alexander Cook Kyle Espeleta
man childhood friend neighbor family member co-worker businessman cheeky emotional creative new york city wall street rhode island train boat funeral going home childhood friends loss memories self-discovery
With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day's journey into the past.
Comedy, Drama, Music
USA
2018
97 Minutes
Nick Offerman Kiersey Clemons Ted Danson Sasha Lane Blythe Danner Toni Collette Quincy Dunn-Baker Alex Reznik
single father daughter musician store owner singer heartwarming emotional touching moving creative record store house coffee shop bedroom recording studio father/daughter relationship band growing up musicians singing
A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
Comedy, Drama
France
1996
97 Minutes
Victoire Thivisol Marie Trintignant Xavier Beauvois Claire Nebout Matiaz Bureau Caton Delphine Schiltz Aurélie Vérillon Léopoldine Serre Henri Berthon Carla Ibled Luckie Royer
child mother father friend aunt somber emotional powerful france small town school death afterlife accident childhood religion superstition discovery growing up transformation
A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.
Comedy, Drama
Thailand|Singapore
2017
102 Minutes
Thaneth Warakulnukroh Penpak Sirikul
elephant architect amusing uplifting engaging emotional endearing thailand bangkok open road journey going home childhood friends animal adoption adventure discovery love growing up 21st century
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Comedy, Drama
Canada|France
1992
107 Minutes
Maxime Collin Ginette Reno Roland Blouin Julien Guiomar Pierre Bourgault Giuditta Del Vecchio Andree Lachapelle Denys Arcand Germain Houde Yves Montmarquette Lorne Brass
young man mother grandfather neighbor sexy woman quirky endearing montreal canada apartment building household childhood coming of age family dysfunction imagination growing up discovery 1990s
Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Italy
2003
106 Minutes
Alice Teghil Sergio Castellitto Margherita Buy Carolina Iaquaniello Federica Sbrenna Claudio Amendola Galatea Ranzi Flavio Bucci Antonio Carnevale Paola Tiziana Cruciani Silvio Vannucci
teacher father mother young girl friend government official engaging spirited witty touching small town rome high school shopping mall cemetery rally father/daughter relationship new school friendship politics
Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.
Drama, Music, Comedy
UK|USA|France
2019
114 Minutes
Viveik Kalra Hayley Atwell Rob Brydon Kulvinder Ghir Nell Williams Aaron Phagura Meera Ganatra Dean-Charles Chapman Sally Phillips
teenager father mother friend love interest teacher powerful uplifting inspiring hilarious cheeky england high school house bedroom new york city bruce springsteen music growing up culture
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1985
92 Minutes
Emilio Estevez Molly Ringwald Judd Nelson Paul Gleason Anthony Michael Hall John Kapelos Ally Sheedy Perry Crawford
jock bad boy popular girl outcast nerd principal charming melodramatic engaging touching amusing library illinois gym storage closet football field street high school detention teen angst
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.