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Movies that feel likeBlue Jasmine (2013)

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

If you loved Blue Jasmine, the closest films we have are Summer Hours (2008), Shame (2011) and Big Eyes (2014). All three share Blue Jasmine's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rams (2015).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Woody Allencontemplative
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If Blue Jasmine hit the spot, these will too

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: brothers and sisters

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

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Shame
2011 · dir. Steve McQueen
🍅 79%★ 7.2drama

Both rooted in New York City

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

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Big Eyes
2014 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 72%★ 6.9dramaStarz

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.

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Beautiful Boy
2018 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Drama built on stillness, twice over

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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The Butler
2013 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%★ 7.2drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both play drama straight

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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Wild
2014 · dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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

Both know what they want from drama

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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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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The Ides of March
2011 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama

Both working the same drama territory

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

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Concussion
2015 · dir. Peter Landesman
🍅 58%★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Drama approached the same way

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

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Fences
2016 · dir. Denzel Washington
🍅 92%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Drama in the same key

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

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