Best "return home" Movies of All Time

40 movies found (page 1/2):

Ballad of a Soldier(1959)

4.1/5 (with 77 votes)

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Directed by Grigori Chukhrai - With Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yevgeni Urbansky, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Antonina Maksimova

Remember the Night(1940)

1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 38 votes)

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen - With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Charles Arnt, Charles Waldron, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

Sunset in My Hometown(2018)

2h 3min | Drama, Music

3.9/5 (with 8 votes)

On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal and locked up in this small, boring suburb.

Directed by Lee Joon-ik - With Park Jeong-min, Kim Go-eun, Jang Hang-seon, Jeong Gyu-su, Shin Hyun-been, Go Joon, ...

Mother(1996)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.

Directed by Albert Brooks - With Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Albert Brooks, John C. McGinley, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Lisa Kudrow, ...

Other People(2016)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 86 votes)

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”.

Directed by Chris Kelly - With Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow, Madisen Beaty, John Early, ...

Subscription Netflix

Don't Think About It(2007)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.

Directed by Gianni Zanasi - With Valerio Mastandrea, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, Caterina Murino, Paolo Briguglia, Dino Abbrescia, ...

Most Likely to Murder(2018)

1h 39min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

Billy, the coolest kid in high school, comes back to his hometown 15 years later to find he’s no longer cool and the girl he still has feelings for now dates the former town outcast. Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is a murderer.

Directed by Dan Gregor

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Our Christmas Love Song(2019)

1h 20min | Romance / Love, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

When country star Melody Jones is accused of plagiarizing her holiday single, she returns home to spend Christmas with her estranged family and old flame and learns what is important in life.

Old Acquaintance(1943)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Phillip Reed, Anne Revere, ...

The Goodbye Kiss(2006)

1h 47min | Drama, Thriller, Crime

3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Left-wing radical turned terrorist Giorgio fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice. After hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall, he decides to surrender: he's fed up with hiding in the jungle and only wants to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy. He cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...

Directed by Michele Soavi - With Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Alina Nedelea, Carlo Cecchi, Antonello Fassari, ...

Subscription VIDEOBUSTER.de | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent VIDEOBUSTER.de | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy VIDEOBUSTER.de

Our Homeland(2012)

1h 40min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.

Directed by Yang Yong-hi - With Sakura Andō, Arata Iura, Yang Ik-june, Masane Tsukayama, Tatsushi Ōmori, Jun Murakami, ...

The Return of the Native(1994)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.

Directed by Jack Gold

Ad Protect Your Online Privacy with a VPN

Don't risk your personal information and online activities being exposed to hackers, government surveillance, and other online threats. A VPN encrypts your internet connection and hides your IP, giving you maximum security and privacy. Take control of your online safety, switch to a VPN now. Choose one of these services to learn more:

Five Fingers for Marseilles(2018)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 1min | Western, Drama, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.

Directed by Michael Matthews - With Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dhlamini, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, ...

Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Homeland(2014)

1h 58min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.

Directed by Nao Kubota - With Kenichi Matsuyama, Ken Mitsuishi, Yōji Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Sakura Andō

The Man Who Returned from the Heat(1972)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece. When the time has come to return home, he decides to surprise his family and arrives to Greece without telling them that he's coming. Loukas is anxious to see his wife and his grown-up children after so long, but they may not share the same feeling.

Directed by Kostas Karagiannis - With Lambros Konstantaras, Ketty Panou, Yorgos Moutsios, Elia Kalligeraki, Mitsi Konstadara, Lavrentis Dianellos, ...

The Return of a Merry Fellow(1902)

1min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man. He is well-dressed but has lost all his strength. Merry Fellow needs help.

Directed by Kazimierz Prószyński - With Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski

Facing the Wind(2018)

1h 48min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Monica, a renowned choreographer, returns to Spain after a 20 year absence to see her sick father. Upon arriving her father has already died and her mother asks her to stay to sell the family home. In delaying her return to Buenos Aires Monica rediscovers her childhood landscapes and is forced to confront the past.

Directed by Meritxell Colell Aparicio - With Ana Fernández, Elena Martín

Your Mother Should Know(2018)

1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.

Come Next Spring(1956)

1h 32min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.

Directed by R. G. Springsteen - With Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Sonny Tufts, Harry Shannon, ...

La casa de mi padre(2008)

1h 40min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.

Directed by Gorka Merchán - With Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Juan José Ballesta, Verónica Echegui, Álex Angulo

Yesterday's Child(1977)

1h 18min | Thriller

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.

Somewhere in Berlin(1946)

1h 20min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.

Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht - With Harry Hindemith, Charles Brauer, Hans Leibelt, Paul Bildt, Fritz Rasp, Walter Bluhm, ...

M.V.(1978)

1h 3min | TV Movie, Drama

An immigrant returns home in Montenegro after spending years in America.

Directed by Milo Đukanović

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei(1975)

1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.

Directed by Risto Jarva

The Fear(2020)

28min | Documentary

The communal memory of killings which took place following World War II in the Dębrzyna forest in south-east Poland, featuring accounts from those who witnessed the atrocities as children. It was a time when many people were returning from forced labour in Germany, with no idea that they might become victims of the attacks being perpetrated by the marauding bandits who had overrun the area. The residents of the nearby villages knew what was going on in the forest, yet never intervened because they were “living in fear” themselves.

The Parade(1984)

2h | Drama, TV Movie

When her estranged, drifter husband Matt returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again, Rachel Kirby's life is thrown into turmoil, which also affects her teenage daughter and mother.

Аller retour(1978)

1h 26min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecutions, and a constant struggle for survival.

Directed by Aleksandar Petković - With Dušan Janićijević, Milena Dravić, Slavko Štimac, Ljubiša Samardžić, Radmila Živković, Vladan Živković, ...

Apart from Everything(2017)

20min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

After a two-year absence and a recent stint in rehab, Fran returns home to Toronto. Struggling to live soberly for the first time in her adult life, she must face the emotional fallout of her disappearance and make amends with the girlfriend and the brother she left behind.

Back Again(2015)

13min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

Directed by Gabriel Dorado - With Carlos Cuevas, Aleix Melé

Ander eta Yul(1989)

1h 30min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two former seminarians meet by chance in adulthood: one has become a dealer, the other a terrorist.

Directed by Ana Díez - With Ramón Agirre, Joseba Apaolaza, Ramón Barea, Isidoro Fernández, Aizpea Goenaga, Miguel Munarriz, ...

Movies: Best "return home" Movies