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Movies that feel likeThe Leopard (1963)

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.

If you loved The Leopard, the closest films we have are An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Through a Glass Darkly (1961). All three share The Leopard's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hamlet (1948).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luchino Visconticontemplative
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If The Leopard hit the spot, these will too

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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 95%★ 8dramaMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: arranged marriage

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.9dramaMax

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Late Spring
1949 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%★ 8.2dramaMax

The same preoccupation in both: arranged marriage

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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Ordet
1955 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 100%★ 8.2drama

Drama in the same key

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

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Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
🍅 100%★ 8.3drama

Both play drama straight

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

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Umberto D.
1952 · dir. Vittorio De Sica
🍅 98%★ 8.1dramaMax

The same drama instincts

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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Germany, Year Zero
1948 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%★ 7.8dramaMax

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

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Drunken Angel
1948 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 94%★ 7.6drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

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Hamlet
1948 · dir. Laurence Olivier
🍅 96%★ 7.5dramaMax

Both working the same drama territory

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

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