Movies Similar to The Switching Division

Zombies und Dromomanen - Die blinden Vögel unterwegs(1985)

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

Transamerica(2005)

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Sandbar(2012)

In this freewheeling dark comedy, a haunted Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.

Puffer Rhapsody(2022)

By fabricating her biography, Luo Su, a young Chinese white-collar worker from a low-income family, hopes to wed Mr. Win, an alluring bachelor. But when her mother's shocking TV interview exposes her deceit, she loses everything and ends her own life. Left in limbo, she is mystically given one last opportunity to alter her fate within 72 hours - albeit within the body of a man.

Scaffolding(2017)

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

Billy Elliot(2000)

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Over the Top(1987)

Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou(2004)

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

My Own Private Idaho(1991)

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Pale Dot(2024)

Father and son facing something beyond their comprehension.

Cohibeo(2025)

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted, she discovers she has the power to stop time.

Blue(2024)

Set in the Southwest of England, within a small, quaint fishing town. two fishermen, John Winter and his son Charlie, struggle to make a living on their small commercial fishing boat. Their relationship is tested and they must both overcome challenges in different ways.

Butterfly(2023)

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life.

Ali's Diaries(2023)

Ali takes a personal look at the complexities of his childhood through old photographs, vivid memories and a bunch of tunes in an attempt to reconnect with his feelings at that time.

Tomorrow is a Long Time(2021)

Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.

Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Des vertes et des pas mûres(2024)

Quatro Linhas(2025)

8 ½ Women(1999)

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.