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Movies that feel likeThe Last King of Scotland (2006)

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

If you loved The Last King of Scotland, the closest films we have are Il Divo (2008), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and The Commune (2016). All three share The Last King of Scotland'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).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Macdonaldcontemplative
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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 83%★ 7.7dramaPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%★ 6.4dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

Both are drama through and through

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

Both know what they want from drama

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaNetflix

Drama approached the same way

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 7.9drama

Both working the same drama territory

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

The same drama instincts

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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I Am Sam
2001 · dir. Jessie Nelson
🍅 35%★ 7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

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

Common ground: affectation

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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