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Movies that feel likeThe Quiet Girl (2022)

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

If you loved The Quiet Girl, the closest films we have are Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), After the Wedding (2006) and Yi Yi (2000). All three share The Quiet Girl's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is House of Hummingbird (2019).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Colm Bairéadcontemplativeromantic
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 · dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
🍅 75%★ 8.2drama

One thread runs through both: love

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

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After the Wedding
2006 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 87%★ 7.7drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Yi Yi
2000 · dir. Edward Yang
★ 8.1drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.9drama

Romantic drama in both cases

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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Floating Weeds
1959 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 96%★ 7.9dramaMax

Common ground: love

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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Black Narcissus
1947 · dir. Emeric Pressburger
🍅 100%★ 7.7dramaMax

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

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East of Eden
1955 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

The shared currency is romance

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

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When We Were Kings
1996 · dir. Leon Gast
🍅 100%★ 7.9documentaryMax

Reaching back to the 1990s for it

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Quiet Girl does

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · romanceRent or buy

Both play drama straight

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%★ 7.2drama

The same drama instincts

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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House of Hummingbird
2019 · dir. Kim Bora
🍅 98%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Cut from the same drama cloth

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
2022 · dir. Maciej Kawulski
🍅 60%★ 6.1crime · action · dramaNetflix

Both working the same drama territory

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.

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