Skip to content
Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness poster
Recommendations based on

Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness

2010 Movie Fantasy Drama Comedy

One day Jonah left his family. He gave no explanation and no goodbye — only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. Now, as he drifts deeper into an abyss of paper planets and cardboard comets, his connections to time, reality and home are falling prey to the vacuum of space. The signal from Earth is fading and his memories are blurring into obscurity. Only home can save him now but is it too late for Jonah?

Same cast & genre

8 Shares actors and at least one genre with this title
Einspruch für die Liebe poster
FILM

The Munich business lawyer Marc is not happy: Instead of going to New York as planned, he has to travel to the province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at short notice to represent his sick grandfather as a pub owner for four weeks. The lawyer juggles millions of dollars every day - it should be easy for him to get grandpa's ailing tavern going with Western know-how. But the down-to-earth Ossis are not in the mood for tapas and Thai food. Marc only realizes this when he gets to know and love the young, single parent Carmen. When Marc's fiancée Lisa shows up, decisions are pending.

Einspruch für die Liebe

2002 TV Movie
A Hunger Artist poster
FILM

In this adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of the same name, a streamer fasts for 40 days in front of a large online audience. Thousands follow and comment on his life in his 24/7 livestream. He receives support from his manager, an avant-garde ASMR artist. Interest in his performance suddenly fizzles out when he begins a new round of fasting. With less and less of an audience, he has to look for new management, but continues to fast anyway. Left completely alone, he finally breaks his old fasting records, but unnoticed by everyone. When one last viewer appears shortly before his death, the streamer reveals why he had to fast.

A Hunger Artist

2023 Drama

Closely Ranked

10 Ranked across franchise, crew, cast, themes, genre, era and audience scores
A Thousand Words poster
93% match FILM

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.

A Thousand Words

★ 6.1 2012 Drama

Viewers also picked

Northfork poster
82% match FILM

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

Northfork

★ 6.0 2003 Fantasy

Viewers also picked

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling poster
75% match FILM

Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

★ 6.5 1986 Drama

Viewers also picked