Top 20 movies like My Neighbors the Yamadas

My Neighbors the Yamadas

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん is of 1 hour(s) and 44 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Studio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners. It was released on 1999-07-17. It has the tagline: The safety of family is the wish of the world. It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

Genres: AnimationFamily

1. Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ)

Pom Poko

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

It has an average vote of 7.163 on TMDB.

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2. Horus: Prince of the Sun (太陽の王子ホルスの大冒険)

Horus: Prince of the Sun

Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to the lands of his ancestors, encountering the beautiful but enigmatic Hilda as his journey leads to a series of adventures.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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3. The Wayward Cloud (天邊一朵雲)

The Wayward Cloud

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

It has an average vote of 5.876 on TMDB.

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4. Twelve Plus One

Twelve Plus One

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.

It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.

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5. The Cyclist (بای‌سیکل‌ران)

The Cyclist

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim's strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won't finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion?

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

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6. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水)

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

It has an average vote of 6.487 on TMDB.

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7. Youth in Oregon

Youth in Oregon

A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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8. Uninvited

Uninvited

A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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9. Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (Morte di un matematico napoletano)

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

It has an average vote of 6.81 on TMDB.

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10. The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy

A Super Computer plans world domination with the help of Robbie the robot and a 10 year old boy who is the son the computer's inventor.

It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.

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11. Running Time

Running Time

Carl, a career criminal, receives an early release from prison and immediately begins preparations for his next big heist.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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12. Love (Szerelem)

Love

Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be from János who is directing a big film in New York. Luca discovers that János is alive, and is dismissed from her teaching job because of her husband. The dying mother anxiously awaits the return of her son from New York.

It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

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13. How to Follow Strangers

How to Follow Strangers

There is a true story of a woman who died in her apartment and it took people a year to find her body decomposing in a crisp Chanel suit. A young man becomes obsessed with this urban tragedy and disappears, wondering if anyone will notice. A young woman who shares his commuting schedule DOES notice. And when he resurfaces, she decides to follow him setting of a chain of events that bind them together...

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

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14. Saturday (Sábado)

Saturday

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. And then everything goes wrong, beginning with a broken elevator

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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15. Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ)

Only Yesterday

On a trip to the countryside to pick safflowers, a young Japanese woman recalls her life when she was ten years old.

It has an average vote of 7.355 on TMDB.

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16. Stage Door

Stage Door

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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17. Ocean Waves (海がきこえる)

Ocean Waves

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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18. The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.

It has an average vote of 7.459 on TMDB.

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19. A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion (劇場版 とある魔術の禁書目録 -エンデュミオンの奇蹟-)

A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion

On the day Tōma Kamijō and Index see Academy City's space elevator, Endymion in the distance, they meet a Level 0 girl with an amazing singing voice, Arisa Meigo. As the three enjoy their time together after school, magic-user Stiyl Magnus suddenly attacks them. His target: Arisa. Why would a girl from the science side be targeted by someone from the magic side, Tōma wonders. In the chaos of Stiyl's attack, he tells Tōma, Index and Arisa that she might cause a war between the magic side and the science side.

It has an average vote of 7.093 on TMDB.

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20. The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し)

The Cat Returns

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

It has an average vote of 7.173 on TMDB.

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