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Movies that feel likeThe Ides of March (2011)

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

If you loved The Ides of March, the closest films we have are Il Divo (2008), Treeless Mountain (2009) and Wild (2014). All three share The Ides of March's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Summer Hours (2008).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Clooneycontemplative
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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

The same preoccupation in both: politics

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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Wild
2014 · dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

The same drama instincts

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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Concussion
2015 · dir. Peter Landesman
🍅 58%★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Drama of the same temperament

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

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The Butler
2013 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%★ 7.2drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

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

Both play drama straight

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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Shame
2011 · dir. Steve McQueen
🍅 79%★ 7.2drama

Both working the same drama territory

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011 · dir. Marcus Baldini
★ 6.2dramaRent or buy

Drama in the same key

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

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Fences
2016 · dir. Denzel Washington
🍅 92%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Drama approached the same way

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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