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Movies that feel likeRachel Getting Married (2008)

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

If you loved Rachel Getting Married, the closest films we have are Lilting (2014), City of Men (2007) and Nobody Knows (2004). All three share Rachel Getting Married'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 Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997).

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jonathan Demmecontemplativemelancholyromantic
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Lilting
2014 Β· dir. Hong Khaou
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2drama

One thread runs through both: grief

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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City of Men
2007 Β· dir. Paulo Morelli
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.2dramaParamount+

Contemplative and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Rachel Getting Married does

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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Nobody Knows
2004 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama

Common ground: brothers and sisters

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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Silent Heart
2014 Β· dir. Bille August
β˜… 7.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Taste of Cherry
1997 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.7dramaMax

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

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Jackie
2016 Β· dir. Pablo LarraΓ­n
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.6drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

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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Drive My Car
2021 Β· dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5dramaRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Central Station
1998 Β· dir. Walter Salles
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8drama

The shared currency is melancholy

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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Places in the Heart
1984 Β· dir. Robert Benton
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

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Blue Valentine
2010 Β· dir. Derek Cianfrance
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romancePrime VideoParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: dysfunctional family

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Rachel Getting Married does

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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Autumn Sonata
1978 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8.1dramaMax

Both are drama through and through

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

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πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5documentary

A 1990s answer to the same itch

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date.

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