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Movies that feel likeIda (2013)

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

If you loved Ida, the closest films we have are Like Father, Like Son (2013), Aquarius (2016) and Our Little Sister (2015). All three share Ida'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).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paweł Pawlikowskicontemplative
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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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Our Little Sister
2015 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 93%★ 7.6drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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

Both know what they want from drama

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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The Second Mother
2015 · dir. Anna Muylaert
🍅 98%★ 7.8drama

Drama in the same key

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

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Loveless
2017 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Both working the same drama territory

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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

Drama approached the same way

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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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Both play drama straight

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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