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Movies that feel likeSociety of the Snow (2023)

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

If you loved Society of the Snow, the closest films we have are The Last Duel (2021), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Irishman (2019). All three share Society of the Snow's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Wendy and Lucy (2008).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. J. A. Bayonacontemplativeepicwarm
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The Last Duel
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama · historyRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

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The Elephant Man
1980 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 91%★ 8.2drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: 43 years apart, and the 1980s show

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

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The Irishman
2019 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · historyNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Society of the Snow does

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Another Round
2020 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 93%★ 7.7dramaNetflix

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Easier on the scale than Society of the Snow

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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Dersu Uzala
1975 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 73%★ 8.2adventure · drama

Drama built on warmth, twice over

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

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Where Is The Friend's House?
1987 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · adventure

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

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The Impossible
2012 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 81%★ 7.5drama · thriller · historyNetflix

J. A. Bayona working the same nerve twice

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Society of the Snow does

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Remember the Titans
2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 72%★ 7.8dramaDisney+

Both lean on stillness more than on history

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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Faces Places
2017 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 99%★ 7.8documentary

Warm drama in both cases

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%★ 7.1drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · historyRent or buy

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

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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