Top 20 movies like Waiyirri
Top 20 Movies like Waiyirri
- 1. Lost in Translation
- 2. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
- 3. Paradise Found
- 4. Boys Don't Cry
- 5. Accidental Waltz
- 6. 18 Days
- 7. The Twin Bracelets
- 8. Volume
- 9. Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
- 10. Two Ships
- 11. Rain Beau's End
- 12. Bangalore Days
- 13. Words with Gods
- 14. 35 Shots of Rum
- 15. Viva Cuba
- 16. Prima le donne e i bambini
- 17. Strange Fruit
- 18. Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
- 19. The Drowning
- 20. Post Grad
1. Lost in Translation
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
It has an average vote of 7.394 on TMDB.
2. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Wilbur begår selvmord)
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
It has an average vote of 6.582 on TMDB.
3. Paradise Found
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
4. Boys Don't Cry
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
5. Accidental Waltz (Случайный вальс)
Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
6. 18 Days (١٨ يوم)
10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
7. The Twin Bracelets (雙鐲)
Two teenage girls make a pledge to each other to be as "man and wife" in a small Chinese fishing town. The notions of women's rights or sexual freedom are absent in their oppressive minority culture, and when one becomes happily married to a stranger, the other is cruelly betrothed to the abusive son of a wealthy family. Seeking to free herself from a lifetime of abuse, Hui-hua desperately looks for a way out. ----by J L
It has an average vote of 1.4 on TMDB.
8. Volume
Sam lives in a place where everything is polished and secrets are cleaned up and kept. So when Georgina goes missing, everyone acts like nothing happened. But Sam can't stop thinking about her, the enigma who lived next door, swimming daily in her pool. As Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina, he comes to realise he may know more than he wants to remember.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
9. Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse)
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
10. Two Ships (Vilaine fille mauvais garçon)
The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness, until a violent event marks their meeting of a strange complicity.
It has an average vote of 5.975 on TMDB.
11. Rain Beau's End
A prominent lesbian couple adopts a child who gets diagnosed with a genetic predisposition for violence, and they must contend with their hard-lined stance on acceptance while attempting to raise the perfect family in the spotlight.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
12. Bangalore Days (ബാംഗ്ലൂർ ഡെയ്സ്)
A fun roller coaster ride about three young people, Aju, Divya and Kuttan who are cousins, reach Bangalore to dream, discover & explore!
It has an average vote of 7.582 on TMDB.
13. Words with Gods
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
It has an average vote of 5.688 on TMDB.
14. 35 Shots of Rum (35 Rhums)
A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
15. Viva Cuba (Viva Cuba)
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother ,
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
16. Prima le donne e i bambini (Prima le donne e i bambini)
Cross stories of three women who find themselves in a cottage retreat in the Tuscan countryside during the Christmas holidays. One is a widow, another is divorced, and the third is on the verge of separation. They have led with them their respective children, who, as innocent and naive, will manage amidst a thousand difficulties to restore the failing households and give the widow a glimpse of the possibility of new love.
17. Strange Fruit
The peaceful daily routine of father and son is interrupted by an encounter of an unfamiliar boy, different from them in color. An allegory to the phenomena of racism as an acquired cultural epidemic, the story discusses the question of the personal conscience of each of us, versus the education we receive from our families and environment. Can we really insist on our personal belief system, when what we must believe in, is dictated to us? The film presents how easily we acquire fear and hatred of foreigners, as well as how easily we might become the "strangers" and "others" ourselves.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
18. Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, the film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned, lesbian Puerto Rican photographer / videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, this experimental narrative becomes a meditation on class, race, and sexuality as shifting differences.
19. The Drowning
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
20. Post Grad
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.
It has an average vote of 4.998 on TMDB.