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Movies that feel likeFloating Weeds (1959)

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

If you loved Floating Weeds, the closest films we have are East of Eden (1955), Black Narcissus (1947) and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013). All three share Floating Weeds' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Black Orpheus (1959).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yasujirō Ozucontemplativeromantic
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East of Eden
1955 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

The same preoccupation in both: love

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

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Black Narcissus
1947 · dir. Emeric Pressburger
🍅 100%★ 7.7dramaMax

Both land stillness and romance at once

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 · dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
🍅 75%★ 8.2drama

One thread runs through both: love

The difference: 54 years apart, and the 2010s show

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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After the Wedding
2006 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 87%★ 7.7drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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

Yasujirō Ozu directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the romance of Floating Weeds for an angle of its own

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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Yi Yi
2000 · dir. Edward Yang
★ 8.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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Day of Wrath
1943 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 100%★ 8drama · history

Both work the same romance

The difference: Sits closer to history than Floating Weeds does

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

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When We Were Kings
1996 · dir. Leon Gast
🍅 100%★ 7.9documentaryMax

Reaching back to the 1990s for it

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

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Black Orpheus
1959 · dir. Marcel Camus
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · romanceMax

Both know what they want from drama

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 100%★ 7.8drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: illegitimate son

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.9drama

Both are drama through and through

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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