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Movies that feel likeAbout Elly (2009)

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

If you loved About Elly, the closest films we have are A Hero (2021), A Separation (2011) and Chak De! India (2007). All three share About Elly's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Treeless Mountain (2009).

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Asghar Farhadicontemplative
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A Hero
2021 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 97%★ 7.5dramaPrime Video

Both are Asghar Farhadi's work, and they rhyme

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

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A Separation
2011 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 8.3dramaHulu

The same hand behind both of them: Asghar Farhadi

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaNetflix

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%★ 7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

The same drama instincts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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Our Little Sister
2015 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 93%★ 7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Both know what they want from drama

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

The drama is handled with the same confidence

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Both play drama straight

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama

Both working the same drama territory

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%★ 7.2drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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