Movies like Greetings from Sumatra (2025)
The best movies like Greetings from Sumatra (2025) are A Question of Faith (2017), All Together Now (2020) and Each Dawn I Die (1939). If Greetings from Sumatra hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Greetings from Sumatra
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- Highest ratedDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)8.0/10 from 251 votes
- NewestDjamin Setia Selamanya (2026)Released 2026
A Question of Faith (2017)
When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisEach Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 thisBobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHurry Sundown (1967)
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood on the Sun (1945)
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 thisToo Late Blues (1961)
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNational Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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 thisWhere the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJonathan (2018)
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 Color of Friendship (2000)
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReturn (2011)
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMerantau (2009)
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMantagi (2026)
This film follows a spiritual and physical journey from upstream to downstream along the Batanghari River. Through five narrative fragments, viewers are invited to see how water bears silent witness to the lives of the people of Jambi—from a place of purification, a source of life, to a victim of ecosystem destruction.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Djamin Setia Selamanya (2026)
Educated under colonial rule, a determined young man from Tanah Karo enlists in a paramilitary unit under the false promise of liberation, ultimately rising to become a pivotal military strategist in North Sumatra's guerrilla defense while balancing acute domestic sacrifices with absolute duty to the nascent Indonesian Republic.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
sMOTHERed (2025)
After surviving a severe accident with lingering amnesia, a micro-painting artist begins to suspect that the woman who visits claiming to be his mother is actually a dangerous stranger.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Coming Home (2026)
A prominent young professional residing in Jakarta is abruptly recalled to his ancestral North Sumatra homeland by his patriarch to campaign for public office, where his political ambitions intersect with a transformative romantic awakening centered on the Batak customs he long neglected.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Coming SoonMovies like thisFrontier Sumatra (2019)
With 30 football fields of forest lost each minute in the world, we need to know now if we can save nature. This is the story of one conservation project, Restorasi Ekosistem Riau (RER). After decades of land-clearing and burning across Sumatra, the remote Kampar Peninsula is now the last great peatland rainforest on the island. But protecting this vast ecosystem pushes the RER team to the limits
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Secret Lives of Orangutans (2024)
Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Urang Bunian: Misteri dari Hutan Sumatera (2026)
On their way to his wife's hometown in West Sumatra, Teddy and his best friend, Kevin, recklessly continue their journey at night and become lost in a forbidden area believed to be the realm of the Urang Bunian. Amidst a forest filled with supernatural terrors and illusions, they must find their way home before they disappear forever.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl (2018)
In 1998, Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose photograph he took.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Tea Company of the NILS in Pematang Siantar (1927)
A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Greetings from Sumatra?
The closest matches to Greetings from Sumatra are A Question of Faith (2017), All Together Now (2020) and Each Dawn I Die (1939). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Greetings from Sumatra?
Start with A Question of Faith (2017), the closest match to Greetings from Sumatra.
What is the highest-rated movie like Greetings from Sumatra?
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010), rated 8.0/10 by 251 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Greetings from Sumatra?
Djamin Setia Selamanya (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Greetings from Sumatra?
Yes: A Question of Faith (2017), All Together Now (2020) and Each Dawn I Die (1939).
How are movies similar to Greetings from Sumatra chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Greetings from Sumatra, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.