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Movies that feel likeCléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

If you loved Cléo from 5 to 7, the closest films we have are Cries and Whispers (1972), The Gleaners and I (2000) and Ordet (1955). All three share Cléo from 5 to 7'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).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Agnès Vardacontemplative
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Cries and Whispers
1972 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%★ 7.9dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: cancer

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

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The Gleaners and I
2000 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 93%★ 7.7documentary

The same hand behind both of them: Agnès Varda

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Cléo from 5 to 7 does

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

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Ordet
1955 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 100%★ 8.2drama

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 95%★ 8dramaMax

Contemplative drama in both cases

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.9dramaMax

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 96%★ 8drama

Common ground: black and white

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

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Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
🍅 100%★ 8.3drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

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The Leopard
1963 · dir. Luchino Visconti
🍅 100%★ 7.9drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.

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Umberto D.
1952 · dir. Vittorio De Sica
🍅 98%★ 8.1dramaMax

Both play drama straight

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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Late Spring
1949 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%★ 8.2dramaMax

The same drama instincts

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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

Drama approached the same way

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

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

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Germany, Year Zero
1948 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%★ 7.8dramaMax

Drama in the same key

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

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