Films like Riceboy Sleeps
In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.
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Blue Heron
Film · 2026 · also dramaA family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jerem...
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Boyhood
Film · 2014 · also dramaThe 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 a...
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A Taste of Honey
Film · 1961 · also dramaWhile out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mot...
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C'mon C'mon
Film · 2021 · also dramaJohnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.
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Minari
Film · 2021 · also dramaA Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they disc...
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Indian Horse
Film · 2018 · also dramaFollows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find...
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Safe
Film · 1995 · also dramaCarol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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The Pumpkin Eater
Film · 1964 · also dramaJo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionall...
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I, Daniel Blake
Film · 2016 · also dramaA 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal...
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Janet Planet
Film · 2024 · also dramaIn rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the month...
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