Movies Similar to A Kid Like Jake

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding(2014)

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding is the story of a young popular spirit medium, who is hired to find a spouse for a dead teenage boy. The chosen bride turns out to be an unexpected person, and this snowballs into a series of events culminating in a Chinese ghost wedding.

Summertime(2015)

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

The Great White Hope(1970)

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Show Boat(1951)

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Sex, Party and Lies(2009)

A youth group is preparing for what will be the summer of their life, including secrets, lies, sex, confusion, evenings and holidays.

A Frozen Flower(2008)

A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.

Gypsy(1993)

Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Oliver!(1968)

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Čudný človek(1976)

Ghosts(1915)

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helen plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.

Hamlet(1996)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Roses, the Sea and the Sun(1982)

On a beach, Masao remembers the summer romance between him and Tatsuya. Part of the "Rose Tribe" trilogy that launched gay pink film in 1982.

Rope

A remake of the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock classic about two longtime friends who attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Hair(1979)

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

Henry V(1989)

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The Squid and the Whale(2005)

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt(2003)

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

The Jealous Sea(2018)

The boyfriend of a handsome photographer tries to deal with his jealousy after finding nude photos he took of a gorgeous model.

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale(1976)

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.

Shadowlands(1993)

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.