20 movies like Grandma, ordered by similarity : Youth in Oregon(2016), High Tide(1987), A Taste of Honey(1961), Suno Sasurjee(2004), Swing Away(2016), Transamerica(2005), Lore(2012), Fatima(2015), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling(1986), Flower(2017), Delhi-6(2009), Let Me Go(2017) ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
2015
78 Minutes
Lily Tomlin Julia Garner Marcia Gay Harden Judy Greer Sam Elliott Laverne Cox Nat Wolff John Cho Elizabeth Peña
granddaughter grandmother poet emotional los angeles abortion money road trip pursuit
A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
99 Minutes
Frank Langella Billy Crudup Christina Applegate Mary Kay Place Josh Lucas Nicola Peltz Alex Shaffer Geoffrey Owens Rebecca Blumhagen Michael Godere Carla Quevedo
old man daughter husband father-in-law son-in-law senior citizen cheeky confident emotional offbeat spirited amusing car road oregon store home right-to-die euthanasia living together
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living.
Comedy, Drama
Australia
1987
104 Minutes
Judy Davis Jan Adele Claudia Karvan Colin Friels John Clayton Frankie J. Holden Monica Trapaga Mark Hembrow
mother daughter grandmother teen girl singer drifter touching emotional dark new south wales, australia town seaside trailer park beach alcoholism mother/daughter relationship estrangement abandoned child reunion secret past
Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1961
100 Minutes
teenager daughter mother sailor boyfriend gay/lesbian bleak emotional england household love friendship mother/daughter relationship emotional abuse pregnancy family dysfunction growing up love discovery 1960s
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Comedy
India
2004
100 Minutes
Aftab Shivdasani Amisha Patel Kader Khan Asrani Gulshan Grover Shakti Kapoor
miser young woman young man daughter grandmother mother amusing hilarious hysterical madcap india city house bungalow restaurant hotel greed money money lending cheating
Mr. Raj K. Saxena is known for his parsimony. Everything he does and thinks is valued with money, and ways he can accumulate it. His daughter, Kiran, is the opposite, a spendthrift. Mr. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
98 Minutes
Shannon Elizabeth John O'Hurley Karl Theobald Manos Gavras Renos Haralambidis Viktoria Miller Hristos Sougaris Alexandros Mylonas
golfer grandfather granddaughter grandmother charming dreamy emotional heartwarming golf course greece village clinic field mental breakdown returning home golf starting over adventure escape discovery
Following a meltdown that leads to a suspension, professional golfer Zoe Papadopoulos travels to her grandparents' village in Greece to escape the harsh spotlight of the international ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
2005
103 Minutes
Felicity Huffman Kevin Zegers Fionnula Flanagan Graham Greene Burt Young Elizabeth Peña Bianca Leigh Jon Budinoff Carrie Preston Maurice Orozco
transsexual son rancher mother therapist emotional uplifting positive los angeles new york city prison phoenix car road trip father/son relationship car theft sexual abuse sex change sexual identity transformation
A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Drama, War
Australia|Germany|UK
2012
109 Minutes
Mika Nilson Seidel Ursina Lardi Hans-Jochen Wagner Sven Pippig Philip Wiegratz Katrin Pollitt Hendrik Arnst Claudia Geisler Saskia Rosendahl Nele Trebs André Frid
nazi father mother daughter sibling grandmother emotional melodramatic brooding intense profound disturbing germany concentration camp river bridge train world war ii nazi collaboration siblings
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1986
97 Minutes
Richard Pryor Debbie Allen Carmen McRae Art Evans Fay Hauser Barbara Williams Paula Kelly Diahnne Abbott Scoey Mitchell Billy Eckstine Wings Hauser
comedian young boy mother grandmother father emotional moving illinois city stage los angeles hospital stand-up comedy fame drug addiction self-destruction coma near-death experience wretched excess discovery
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Zoey Deutch Kathryn Hahn Tim Heidecker Adam Scott Joey Morgan Dylan Gelula Maya Eshet Eric Edelstein Romy Byrne
teenager mother stepfather stepbrother vigilante friend amusing brash unrestrained suspenseful emotional gutsy los angeles san fernando valley car pool restaurant bowling alley revenge growing up
A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.
Comedy, Drama
India
2009
141 Minutes
Abhishek Bachchan Sonam Kapoor Om Puri Rishi Kapoor Waheeda Rehman Divya Dutta Prem Chopra Atul Kulkarni
american grandmother neighbor brother money lender sister emotional passionate delhi, india house road mosque roof religious persecution love triangle riots illness self-discovery feud transformation
In the ancient walled city of Delhi, an American-born Indian finds himself on an unexpected inner journey as he learns about himself and his roots.
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 »
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
2017
105 Minutes
Dean O'Gorman James Rolleston Ashleigh Cummings Antonia Prebble Matt Whelan Ben Mitchell Milo Cawthorne Siobhan Marshall
outlaw cop friend boyfriend girlfriend driver amusing engaging endearing thrilling heartwarming new zealand vehicle barn road on the run big city on the run road trip protest
Accidental outlaws travel New Zealand in a yellow mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with the cops and the media hot on their tail.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
95 Minutes
Justin Chon Simone Baker Curtiss Cook Jr. David So Chris Jai Alex Isaiah Jarel Cesar Garcia Trinecia Moore-Pernell Ben Munoz Omono Okojie
brother business owner young girl family member dreamy fiery emotional moving los angeles shoe store street family business riots friendship honor dreams aspirations love pursuit sacrifice
2 Korean American brothers run a shoe store in LA county. Their friend, black 11 y.o. Kamilla, drops in and helps. This day, the Rodney King verdict ignites the 1992 LA riots.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
99 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Fred MacMurray Fred Stone Evelyn Venable Frank Albertson Ann Shoemaker Charley Grapewin Grady Sutton Hedda Hopper Jonathan Hale Hattie McDaniel
daughter mother father wealthy man amusing emotional spirited small town household midwest aspirations social standing class distinctions romance dining love quest 1930s
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Comedy, Other, Drama
USA
1946
129 Minutes
James Stewart Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore Thomas Mitchell Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Frank Faylen Ward Bond Gloria Grahame H.B. Warner Frank Albertson
angel friend wife uncle businessperson banker heartwarming emotional charming new york state store small town christmas big business suicide marriage money ambition fall rescue
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2008
91 Minutes
Souléymane Sy Savané Red West Diana Franco Galindo Lane 'Roc' Williams Mamadou Lam Carmen Leyva
cab driver cynic daughter charming inspiring emotional north carolina winston-salem, n.c. suicide attempt depression friendship regret money discovery underdog transformation 2000s
Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1981
109 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Henry Fonda Jane Fonda Doug McKeon Dabney Coleman William Lanteau Christopher Rydell
elderly person mother daughter fiancée teenager emotional heartwarming moving new england pond vacation home family marriage aging transformation discovery 1980s
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA|France
2010
104 Minutes
Julianne Moore Annette Bening Mark Ruffalo Mia Wasikowska Josh Hutcherson Kunal Sharma Eddie Hassell Zosia Mamet Yaya DaCosta Joaquín Garrido
lesbian father mother teenager daughter son charming emotional witty california household family lesbianism love affair marriage parenthood discovery love 2010s
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
119 Minutes
Michael Keaton Zach Galifianakis Edward Norton Andrea Riseborough Amy Ryan Emma Stone Naomi Watts Lindsay Duncan Merritt Wever Jeremy Shamos Bill Camp
action hero actor broadway director girlfriend daughter ex-wife creative charming emotional amusing dark apartment new york city broadway theater backstage street restaurant acting father/daughter relationship challenge
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.