IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Departures (2008)
Departures runs on bittersweet, melancholy beauty, and warm hug. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016
Taking Chance
2009
Abandoned Man
2025
Master Cheng
2019
Postmen in the Mountains
1999
Snow Cake
2006
Songcatcher
2001
The Last Bus
2021
My Mother
2019
Ramen Shop
2018
Sailing Home
2024
Band Together
2025
Lighting Up the Stars
2022
Impossible Things
2021
Miracle: Letters to the President
2021
The Shipping News
2001
My Grandfather's People
2011
My Father and My Son
2005
The First Grader
2010
The Last Dance
2024
The Asadas!
2020
Common Ground
2002
Mr. Church
2016
Canola
2016