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Movies that feel likeMain Hoon Na (2004)

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

If you loved Main Hoon Na, the closest films we have are Manderlay (2005), Summer Hours (2008) and Treeless Mountain (2009). All three share Main Hoon Na's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ulee's Gold (1997).

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Both working the same drama territory

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Drama approached the same way

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%★ 7drama

Drama in the same key

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama

The same drama instincts

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaNetflix

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

Both know what they want from drama

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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Through the Olive Trees
1994 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.7drama

Both play drama straight

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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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