Movies like I don't know what nostalgia is anymore (2023)
The best movies like I don't know what nostalgia is anymore (2023) are A Corner in Wheat (1909), Eleanor the Great (2025) and Brand Upon the Brain! (2007). If I don't know what nostalgia is anymore hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAn Adventure in Space and Time (2013)7.7/10 from 222 votes
- NewestEleanor the Great (2025)Released 2025
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrand Upon the Brain! (2007)
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnuja (2024)
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHere (2024)
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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe River (1984)
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlue Chips (1994)
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHead Full of Honey (2018)
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHungry Hearts (2015)
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Rifleman (2023)
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWon't Back Down (2012)
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFast Girls (2012)
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Shoes (2002)
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Together Now (2020)
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLick the Star (1998)
Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star."
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLady Driver (2020)
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlicka (2006)
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisShenmue: The Movie (2001)
Ryo Hazuki finds himself seeing his father Iwao die at the hands of a mysterious Chinese man named Lan Di, who also steals an item Iwao had called the "Dragon Mirror". Ryo makes it his mission to get revenge on Lan Di, but first he has to find out how to find him, with the warhouse docks & the Mad Angels gang being his best leads.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Starved (2009)
STARVED is a post-apocalyptic psychological horror machinima by Alvin Soprano, created in Fallout 3. Set in the desolate ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the film explores the descent into madness of a lone survivor trapped in an abandoned metro tunnel — cut off from food, light, and hope. After a supply run gone wrong, a scavenger named Joanna Creek finds herself trapped beneath the city in a collapsed metro tunnel. Her radio is dead, her flashlight battery fading, and all exits are sealed. Days pass. Hunger gnaws. Water runs out. Rats scurry, but offer no salvation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Megaton (2010)
Set in the ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the story follows Lars, a wandering scavenger who arrives in the fragile settlement of Megaton, only to find the town already teetering on the edge of collapse. After a cryptic encounter with a disfigured preacher and an uneasy alliance with a local mercenary, Lars is approached by a stranger offering him caps to detonate the bomb at the town’s center.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
War of the Servers (2007)
When strange beings called Mingebags invade the servers of the popular game Garry's Mod, one player must try to survive while searching for his friends amid the chaos and war.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Summerdream (2009)
The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in languages she doesn’t speak. As the veil between sleep and waking life begins to erode, Hermia becomes increasingly drawn to the ruins at the edge of Veronaville — ruins said to be cursed by the spirits of wronged lovers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Fall of the Century (2017)
Tim Hawkins is a world-renowned stuntman famous for his death-defying performances. For his latest and most dangerous act yet, he sets out to break the Guinness World Record for the highest controlled fall ever attempted — using none other than the Statue of Liberty as his launch point. But the fall doesn’t go as planned. Before the cameras roll, Tim slips prematurely and plummets off the statue, smashing into the emergency security pads below. Though the pads break his fall, the impact leaves him unconscious and in critical condition. While his body lies in a coma, Tim's mind becomes trapped in a nightmarish loop — an eternal, slow-motion fall that never ends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Sanctuary Hills (2018)
Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Goodbye Mommy (2024)
This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Witching Hour (2020)
O, a creator who has become lost within his own creation. As Death arrives at 3:33 am—the witching hour—to claim him, O is forced to confront the flaws in his work and his own mistakes. Through a series of flashbacks, the film reveals O's influence on the world he built, using various characters from different eras to maintain his followers' worship. The narrative explores themes of creation, legacy, and the consequences of a creator’s flawed intervention in their own work, ultimately suggesting that his removal is the only way for the game (a metaphor for life) to be truly fixed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
THRASHING (2023)
A lonely marijuana farmer begins having strange waking dreams and gaps in his memory.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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What are the best movies like I don't know what nostalgia is anymore?
The closest matches to I don't know what nostalgia is anymore are A Corner in Wheat (1909), Eleanor the Great (2025) and Brand Upon the Brain! (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I don't know what nostalgia is anymore?
Start with A Corner in Wheat (1909), the closest match to I don't know what nostalgia is anymore.
What is the highest-rated movie like I don't know what nostalgia is anymore?
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013), rated 7.7/10 by 222 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I don't know what nostalgia is anymore?
Eleanor the Great (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
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