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Movies that feel likeSaturday Night Fever (1977)

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

If you loved Saturday Night Fever, the closest films we have are Christiane F. (1981), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985). All three share Saturday Night Fever'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).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Badhamcontemplative
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Christiane F.
1981 · dir. Uli Edel
🍅 80%★ 7.5drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

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Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · dir. Robert Benton
🍅 90%★ 7.8drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

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The Trip to Bountiful
1985 · dir. Peter Masterson
🍅 100%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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Cries and Whispers
1972 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%★ 7.9dramaMax

Cut from the same drama cloth

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%★ 7.1drama

Both play drama straight

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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Stand and Deliver
1988 · dir. Ramón Menéndez
🍅 89%★ 7.3drama

The same drama instincts

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

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The Sacrifice
1986 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 88%★ 7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

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Blind Chance
1987 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 73%★ 7.7drama

Both are drama through and through

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 96%★ 8drama

Both know what they want from drama

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

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The Leopard
1963 · dir. Luchino Visconti
🍅 100%★ 7.9drama

Both working the same drama territory

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.

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Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 93%★ 7.8dramaMax

Drama approached the same way

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

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

Drama in the same key

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

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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