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10 Best Movies Like Desperate Sunflowers

If you loved Desperate Sunflowers, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Family Weekend

Family Weekend

2013★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition....

#2
Memories of Matsuko

Memories of Matsuko

2006★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy....

#3
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#4
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#5
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project....

#6
Class Act

Class Act

1992★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Sunflowers for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of ...

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