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Movies that feel likeChak De! India (2007)

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?

If you loved Chak De! India, the closest films we have are Summer Hours (2008), Manderlay (2005) and Brainstorm (2001). All three share Chak De! India'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).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Shimit Amincontemplative
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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Both play drama straight

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

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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 7.9drama

Both know what they want from drama

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.

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

Both working the same drama territory

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

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

Drama in the same key

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

The same drama instincts

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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Invisible Life
2019 · dir. Karim Aïnouz
🍅 94%★ 7.7dramaPrime Video

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Both are drama through and through

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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