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Movies that feel likeTaste of Cherry (1997)

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.

If you loved Taste of Cherry, the closest films we have are Nobody Knows (2004), Central Station (1998) and City of Men (2007). All three share Taste of Cherry'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).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Abbas Kiarostamicontemplativemelancholy
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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%★ 8drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

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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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%★ 8drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

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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Places in the Heart
1984 · dir. Robert Benton
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

Both sit in the same melancholy register

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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Autumn Sonata
1978 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 85%★ 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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Three Colors: Blue
1993 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 98%★ 7.8dramaMax

The same drama instincts

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

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🍅 92%★ 7.5documentary

Contemporaries, and it shows

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Taste of Cherry does

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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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · dir. Richard Brooks
🍅 97%★ 7.9drama

Two things both keep coming back to: depression and suicide

The difference: 39 years apart, and the 1950s show

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

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Winter Light
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 77%★ 8drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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Magnolia
1999 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 82%★ 8dramaMax

Both know what they want from drama

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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The Celebration
1998 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 91%★ 8drama

The same preoccupation in both: depression

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

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