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Movies that feel like How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)

If you loved How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, the closest films we have are Like Father, Like Son (2013), Leave No Trace (2018) and House of Hummingbird (2019). All three share How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies' contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8drama

Two things both keep coming back to: father and family relationships

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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Leave No Trace
2018 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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House of Hummingbird
2019 Β· dir. Kim Bora
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

Common ground: growing up

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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Biutiful
2010 Β· dir. Alejandro G. IΓ±Γ‘rritu
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.4drama

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

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Boyhood
2014 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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Malena
2000 Β· dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
πŸ… 54%β˜… 7.4drama

Drama built on wistfulness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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The Hand of God
2021 Β· dir. Paolo Sorrentino
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: family relationships

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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Aftersun
2022 Β· dir. Charlotte Wells
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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20th Century Girl
2022 Β· dir. Bang Woo-ri
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4romance Β· drama

One thread runs through both: tearjerker

The difference: Leans further into romance

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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Rebel Without a Cause
1955 Β· dir. Nicholas Ray
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6drama

Both run wistful where it counts

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

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The Way He Looks
2014 Β· dir. Daniel Ribeiro
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: intimate

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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Mysterious Skin
2005 Β· dir. Gregg Araki
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

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