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Movies that feel likeAndrei Rublev (1966)

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

If you loved Andrei Rublev, the closest films we have are Serpico (1973), True Grit (1969) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). All three share Andrei Rublev's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Man from Hong Kong (1975).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrei Tarkovskycontemplativeepicgritty
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Serpico
1973 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 93%★ 7.7crime · drama · history

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Andrei Rublev does

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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True Grit
1969 · dir. Henry Hathaway
🍅 87%★ 7.4western · drama · adventure

Contemplative and epic in the same breath

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · dir. John Huston
🍅 100%★ 8.2adventure · drama · western

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

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The Virgin Spring
1960 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 88%★ 8drama · history

Common ground: rape

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

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Deliverance
1972 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 90%★ 7.6drama · adventure · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: rape

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

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Duck, You Sucker
1971 · dir. Sergio Leone
🍅 92%★ 7.5westernPrime Video

Gritty history, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Andrei Rublev does

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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Jamaica Inn
1939 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 54%★ 6.3crime · adventure

Epic drama in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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J. Edgar
2011 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 44%★ 6.5drama · crime · history

One thread runs through both: biography

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

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The Man from Hong Kong
1975 · dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
🍅 100%★ 6.5action · crime · adventurePrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on history

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

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Just Mercy
2019 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · crime · history

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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Pather Panchali
1955 · dir. Satyajit Ray
🍅 98%★ 8.2drama · historyMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teacher

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · dir. John Ford
🍅 95%★ 8.1western

History built on grit, twice over

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

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