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Movies that feel like Dear You (2026)

If you loved Dear You, the closest films we have are Paper Planes (2014), Housekeeping (1987) and A Letter to Momo (2012). All three share Dear You's contemplative and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

Xiaowei travels to Thailand to find his "billionaire grandfather" who is out of contact due to debt problems, but unexpectedly find the one who has been corresponding with his grandmother for years is not her husband.

8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lan Hongchuncontemplativewarmcozywittyplayful

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%6.2comedy · family · drama

Contemplative where it counts, warm underneath

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Housekeeping
1987 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 92%7.2comedy · drama

The same mix in both: comfort, then wit

The difference: Not nearly as warm as Dear You

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

Both lean on play more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Dear You does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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Storm Boy
1977 · dir. Henri Safran
6.9drama · family

Contemplative family, and it commits to that

The difference: 49 years apart, and the 1970s show

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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Red Dog
2011 · dir. Kriv Stenders
🍅 84%7.3drama · comedy · family

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

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The White Balloon
1995 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 83%7.6drama · family

Drama with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%7.2comedy · drama

Witty comedy in both cases

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
2017 · dir. Benjamin Renner
🍅 97%7.4family · animation · comedy

Both lean on play more than on family

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Dear You does

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.

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Whisky
2004 · dir. Juan Pablo Rebella
🍅 100%7.1comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%6.4comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Family built on play, twice over

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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Local Hero
1983 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 100%7.3comedy · drama

Both run cozy where it counts

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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