Movies like Manta Ray (2019)
The best movies like Manta Ray (2019) are Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018), The Billionaire (2011) and Love of Siam (2007). If Manta Ray hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedHow to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)8.1/10 from 462 votes
- NewestThe Paradise of Thorns (2024)Released 2024
Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018)
Former lovers Pich and Shane reconnect through Thai floral art, but Pich's illness leads Shane to seek peace by becoming a monk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Billionaire (2011)
Inspired by a true story, this uplifting drama focuses on a young Thai entrepreneur's incredible business success, despite obstacles and self-doubt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove of Siam (2007)
Best friends as children, Mew and Tong run into each other years later as young men and find they have unexpected feelings for each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Teacher's Diary (2014)
Finding the diary of his predecessor, rural schoolteacher Song falls in love with its author, Ann, and sets out on a winding journey to find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHomestay (2018)
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Happy Old Year (2019)
While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Swimmers (2014)
After falling pregnant to her boyfriend's best friend, a young woman commits suicide. She returns to haunt her unborn child's father while her friend seeks revenge on the person who drove her to her fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBuoyancy (2019)
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Die Tomorrow (2017)
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Blue Hour (2015)
A bullied loner finds solace in another boy's arms when they meet at a haunted swimming pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hunger (2023)
A talented young street-food cook pushes herself to the limit after accepting an invitation to train under an infamous and ruthless chef.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Paradise of Thorns (2024)
When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)
Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gigi & Nate (2022)
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTalhotBlond (2012)
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTigertail (2020)
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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 thisCall Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCome Sunday (2018)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisResurrecting the Champ (2007)
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo One Would Tell (1996)
Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats escalate into violence when Bobby thinks Stacy has stepped out of line. Soon she is walking on egg shells and living in fear. Having seen the tell-tale bruises, Stacy's best friend convinces her to break things off with Bobby-but in a moment of weakness, Stacy goes to meet him. It will be the last time she is seen alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Dinner with Hervé (2018)
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdopt a Highway (2019)
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
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 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 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 thisThe Parts You Lose (2019)
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sound of Silence (2019)
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Manta Ray?
The closest matches to Manta Ray are Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018), The Billionaire (2011) and Love of Siam (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Manta Ray?
People who watched Manta Ray most often go on to Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018), The Billionaire (2011) and Love of Siam (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Manta Ray?
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), rated 8.1/10 by 462 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Manta Ray?
The Paradise of Thorns (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Manta Ray chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Manta Ray, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.