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Movies that feel likeCorpus Christi (2019)

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

If you loved Corpus Christi, the closest films we have are Columbus (2017), Sweet Bean (2015) and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). All three share Corpus Christi's contemplative and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Vernon, Florida (1981).

πŸ… 98% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jan Komasacontemplativecozy
5 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video Β· Criterion Channel Β· Kino Film Collection

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Columbus
2017 Β· dir. Kogonada
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.2drama

Common ground: small town life

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.

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Sweet Bean
2015 Β· dir. Naomi Kawase
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.4drama

Contemplative and cozy in the same breath

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

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The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.4drama

One thread runs through both: small town life

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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Diary of a Country Priest
1951 Β· dir. Robert Bresson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

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The Judge
2014 Β· dir. David Dobkin
πŸ… 49%β˜… 7.4dramaPrime Video

Cozy drama in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

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Kes
1970 Β· dir. Ken Loach
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9dramaPrime Video

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

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Rio Bravo
1959 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9western Β· drama

A streak of comfort through both

The difference: Leans harder into western than Corpus Christi does

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

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Housekeeping
1987 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

The same drama instincts

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Corpus Christi does

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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The White Balloon
1995 Β· dir. Jafar Panahi
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· family

Both play drama straight

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Drama of the same temperament

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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Vernon, Florida
1981 Β· dir. Errol Morris
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7documentary

Reaching back to the 1980s for it

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

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Children of Heaven
1997 Β· dir. Majid Majidi
πŸ… 83%β˜… 8.2drama Β· family

Cut from the same drama cloth

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

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