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Movies that feel likeI'm Still Here (2024)

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

If you loved I'm Still Here, the closest films we have are Central Station (1998), The Look of Silence (2014) and The King's Speech (2010). All three share I'm Still Here's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is City of Men (2007).

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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%★ 8drama

Walter Salles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the scale than I'm Still Here

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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The Look of Silence
2014 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%★ 8.2history · documentary

Both land stillness and scale at once

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than I'm Still Here does

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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The King's Speech
2010 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 94%★ 8drama · historyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%★ 7.5dramaRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: grief

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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Hostiles
2017 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 71%★ 7.2drama · western · historyStarz

Common ground: grief

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: rio de janeiro

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

Melancholy drama in both cases

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on history

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%★ 8drama

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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Hero
2002 · dir. Zhang Yimou
★ 7.9drama · adventure · action

Epic history, and it commits to that

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

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Life of Pi
2012 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 86%★ 7.9adventure · dramaMax

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%★ 6.6drama

History with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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