Films like The Starling
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
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Birth
Film · 2004 · also dramaIt took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the...
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Penguin Bloom
Film · 2021 · also dramaWhen an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the strug...
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Fathers and Daughters
Film · 2015 · also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of h...
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Film · 2007 · also dramaA recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confr...
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Rabbit Hole
Film · 2010 · also dramaLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Film · 2023 · also dramaHarold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content t...
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You're Not You
Film · 2014 · also dramaWhen an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Compl...
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Everybody's Fine
Film · 2009 · also dramaEight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Fr...
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Film · 1972 · also dramaMiddle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an eleg...
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Nell
Film · 1994 · also dramaIn a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
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