Movies Similar to My Dead Dad

The Ghost Sings Opera(2013)

Federico finds his father dead and calls his brother, who decides to hire a medium to get in touch with the dead man. However, their father now seems to love opera.

Romantic Undertaking(1996)

A woman takes in a lodger to help with the debts of her funeral business.

Twitches(2005)

Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to face the darkness alone, will Coventry be doomed? Or will the sisters multiply their magic by standing together?

The Slaughter Rule(2002)

A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

Barnyard(2006)

When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.

Opus Zero(2018)

Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consumed with the task of composing an ending for the masterpiece of an early twentieth century musician. Being isolated from the world, he sees an opportunity to finish the symphony. However, Paul is caught up in a new mystery, the disappearance thirty years ago of a woman named Marianne.

3(2009)

Two sisters (Geerteke van Lierop, Nicole Moerland) meet with their estranged mother (Monic Hendrickx). While they're trying to connect over the course of a day, we hear the thoughts of their deceased father (Rutger Hauer).

Hail the Conquering Hero(1944)

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

Reckless(1935)

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Crackers(1998)

Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.

Colt 45(2014)

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

Longing(2013)

Moni lost her parents in an accident. The sadness she felt was not relieved with time. One day she got a visit, it was her parents. They told her: "there is a way to get back together". Now Moni will show us her desire is real.

Player Two(2016)

Inspired by a YouTube comment from user 00WARTHERAPY00, this touching short film tells the story of a son playing his old Xbox console for the first time years after his father’s death— chasing his father’s ghost in the racing video game Rally Sport Challenge

About Moonlight(2025)

Time doesn’t wait for us. Daniel works on his book while spending time in the countryside with his mother and sister. His writing, which has his the troubled relationship with his father as main subject, is composed of memories full of pain, longing and conflict.

My Good Dad(1970)

From Up on Poppy Hill(2011)

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

The Beach House(2018)

Cara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after losing her job in Chicago. There, she reconnects with her mother Lovie, who has been caring for her young, pregnant friend Toy in her charming beach house.

Supermarket Affairs(2023)

A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and inadvertently involve a handsome stranger at the local Asian supermarket.

Limen

Intriguing and transgressive, Jamaica has always been considered the most attractive island in the Caribbean. The place in the world that plays, sings and dances at all hours of the day and night.

Onward(2020)

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.