Movies Similar to My Backyard Was A Mountain

Late B(l)oomer(2023)

Jul just got laid off and chose to pursue his old dream. It comes with a price however, as he has to face his daughter’s expectations that she had set for him.

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The Cabin Man(2007)

We are all in a hurry to fulfil our dreams and reach our destination ahead of time. Then suddenly we find, that time has outpaced us leaving us behind stranded and clueless about the future. Is there a destination in life? Is there life beyond a destination?

6.5

What Grown-Ups Know(2004)

Teenage boy Roy and his ailing mother Elizabeth live an aimless life on the road, shuttling between gas stations, temp jobs and cheap motels. When they end up at a desolate caravan park, fractures begin to appear in Roy's relationship with his mother as he starts to fall head over heels for park manager Maurice.

4.5

In the Name of the Father(2002)

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

5.2

White Hunter, Black Heart(1990)

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.

6.4

Who Am I(2019)

Bastian, a young religious guy decides to embrace his sexuality and goes on a hook up with a stranger. Soon, he regrets it and does not know how to cope with it. Once his best friend Peter finds him at home crying, he has to go out with the truth. However, Bastian is more than surprised by Peter's reaction.

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The Kite(2016)

A short coming-of-Age film about two boys, first love, and a kite that reunites them 20-years later.

5.3

Andy(2017)

After being accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a party, Andy uses a public twitter confessional to rewrite his story.

4.7

The Rumor of the Future Time(2021)

The couple, who went out at night after the curfew was lifted in Istanbul due to the pandemic, on the journey home, their perceptions are deconstructed, and they slowly move away from the city, time and each other.

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Listen(2014)

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

6.9

Tricycle Thief(2014)

After discovering his eviction notice, a tricycle driver goes on a desperate hunt for money.

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The Cave Men's War(1913)

The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.

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Dogs(2021)

A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.

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Fairyocious(2019)

Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender.

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Who's Afraid of the Dark(2019)

Two homeless people, one blind and the other disabled travel the city streets with a supermarket trolley on an endless journey.

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El balancín de Iván(2002)

Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.

5.5

Muñequita linda(2021)

After years of hard learning, Estela, a promising young musician, has to face the blinding glare of success.

5.2

Darkroom(2011)

A very short film about a man leaving a night club, a street in dark, a guy offering his sexual services and his tears. The only demand. Intense, almost cruel, a precise portrait of refuges, loneliness, compromises and fall.

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Winter of the Witch(1969)

The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence makes her struggle to adjust to the modern world, and to change from bad to good witch. Based on the book "Old Black Witch" by Wende and Harry Devlin.

8.0

Feel The Noise(2007)

After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his step-brother Javi to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.

4.4