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Movies that feel likeThe Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

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.

If you loved The Motorcycle Diaries, the closest films we have are Carandiru (2003), Brainstorm (2001) and Main Hoon Na (2004). All three share The Motorcycle Diaries' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Treeless Mountain (2009).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Walter Sallescontemplative
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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama

Drama in the same key

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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

The same drama instincts

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

Drama approached the same way

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

Walter Salles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Both know what they want from drama

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

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

Both are drama through and through

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

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