Movies like Blue Bayou
Blue Bayou (2021) is a drama movie directed by Justin Chon. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Minari (2021)
★ 7.3 · 1,944 votes · Drama
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
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2. Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7 · 2,502 votes · Drama, Romance
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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3. Columbus (2017)
★ 7.1 · 515 votes · Drama
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
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4. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
★ 7.7 · 8,529 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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5. The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
★ 6.9 · 639 votes · Romance, Drama
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
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6. Okja (2017)
★ 7.3 · 4,664 votes · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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7. Searching (2018)
★ 7.6 · 4,406 votes · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
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8. Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
★ 7.0 · 4,079 votes · Comedy, Romance
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
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9. The Half of It (2020)
★ 7.1 · 1,633 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
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10. The Farewell (2019)
★ 7.4 · 1,597 votes · Comedy, Drama
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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11. Palmer (2021)
★ 8.1 · 1,999 votes · Drama
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
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12. Gran Torino (2008)
★ 8.0 · 11,900 votes · Drama
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
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13. A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
★ 6.8 · 445 votes · Drama
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
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14. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
★ 7.1 · 885 votes · Drama
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
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15. Life as a House (2001)
★ 7.1 · 466 votes · Drama
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
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16. A Good Person (2023)
★ 7.0 · 465 votes · Drama
Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps her live a life worth living.
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17. Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.4 · 589 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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18. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
★ 7.5 · 850 votes · Thriller, Drama
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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