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Movies that feel likeBiutiful (2010)

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

If you loved Biutiful, the closest films we have are Leave No Trace (2018), The Straight Story (1999) and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024). All three share Biutiful's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is House of Hummingbird (2019).

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritucontemplativewistful
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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%★ 7.1drama

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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The Straight Story
1999 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 95%★ 8dramaDisney+

Common ground: nostalgic

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 · dir. Pat Boonnitipat
🍅 98%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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The Hand of God
2021 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 83%★ 7.3dramaNetflix

Drama built on wistfulness, twice over

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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Malena
2000 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 54%★ 7.4drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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House of Hummingbird
2019 · dir. Kim Bora
🍅 98%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both sit in the same wistful register

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · dir. Nicholas Ray
🍅 91%★ 7.6drama

Drama in the same key

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

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The 400 Blows
1959 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 99%★ 8dramaMax

The same drama instincts

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

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Mud
2013 · dir. Jeff Nichols
🍅 97%★ 7.3drama

Both working the same drama territory

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

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Boyhood
2014 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 97%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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Mommy
2014 · dir. Xavier Dolan
🍅 89%★ 8drama

Both know what they want from drama

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

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The Florida Project
2017 · dir. Sean Baker
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama

Drama approached the same way

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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