Movies like A Mosquito in the Ear

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Here

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   2024 · 104 min · Drama

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   An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: based on graphic novel
   • a closely matched era

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   The Nest

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   2020 · 107 min · Drama

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   Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Dorothy

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 150 min · Drama

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   Set in a world shaped by caste, violence, and toxic masculinity, two childhood friends grow up inseparable in rural Tamil Nadu. Their lives are transformed by the arrival of Dorothy, a woman whose compassion quietly challenges the world around them.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   In Waves

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   2026 · 91 min · Animation · Drama · Romance

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   In Los Angeles, AJ, a shy teenager, meets Kristen. She lives for surfing; he loves skateboarding and drawing. They fall madly in love, and a happy future seems within reach. But everything changes when Kristen faces a sudden illness. Together, they face adversity, driven by the strength of their love, their friends, and their newly shared passion for surfing and the ocean.

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   • shared theme: based on graphic novel
   • a closely matched era

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   Lion

   Strong story similarity

   2016 · 118 min · Drama

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   A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Kindness of Strangers

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   2019 · 112 min · Drama

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   Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Ties That Bind Us

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   2025 · 106 min · Drama

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   A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six-year-old child trying to find a place in a new family structure. By revealing their aspirations, their fears, their choices, Carine Tardieu depicts different ways in which humans create families.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   What Maisie Knew

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   2013 · 99 min · Drama

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   In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Last Film Show

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 110 min · Drama

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   A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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    After Yang

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 96 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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    When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era

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