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10 Best Movies Like Is Anybody There?

If you loved Is Anybody There?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Digging to China

Digging to China

1997★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Precocious young Harriet and her older sister Gwen live at their mother's motel in small-town New Hampshire. Harriet dreams of a life beyond her inattentive family and the stultify...

#2
The Father

The Father

2020★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the...

#3
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

#4
Paradise

Paradise

1991★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl....

#5
Armageddon Time

Armageddon Time

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in ...

#6
The Great Escaper

The Great Escaper

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Is Anybody There? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy....

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