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Movies that feel likeBlind Chance (1987)

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

If you loved Blind Chance, the closest films we have are A Short Film About Killing (1988), The Whales of August (1987) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985). All three share Blind Chance's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Krzysztof Kieślowskicontemplative
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A Short Film About Killing
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 91%★ 7.9crime · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Krzysztof Kieślowski

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Blind Chance does

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%★ 7.1drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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The Trip to Bountiful
1985 · dir. Peter Masterson
🍅 100%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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Through the Olive Trees
1994 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Drama of the same temperament

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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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%★ 7drama

The same drama instincts

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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Stand and Deliver
1988 · dir. Ramón Menéndez
🍅 89%★ 7.3drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

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The Sacrifice
1986 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 88%★ 7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Drama approached the same way

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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

Both working the same drama territory

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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

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

Both are drama through and through

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

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Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
1988 · dir. Mark Lewis
🍅 88%★ 7.6documentary

Products of the same few years

A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests.

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