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Movies that feel likeThe Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

If you loved The Wind Will Carry Us, the closest films we have are Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Columbus (2017) and Corpus Christi (2019). All three share The Wind Will Carry Us' contemplative and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Vernon, Florida (1981).

πŸ… 97% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Abbas Kiarostamicontemplativecozy
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Diary of a Country Priest
1951 Β· dir. Robert Bresson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7drama

The same two preoccupations: small town life, and rural area

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

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Columbus
2017 Β· dir. Kogonada
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.2drama

One thread runs through both: small town life

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.

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Corpus Christi
2019 Β· dir. Jan Komasa
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.7drama

Contemplative where it counts, cozy underneath

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

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Sweet Bean
2015 Β· dir. Naomi Kawase
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.4drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

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The Judge
2014 Β· dir. David Dobkin
πŸ… 49%β˜… 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both lean on comfort more than on drama

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

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Housekeeping
1987 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than The Wind Will Carry Us does

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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Vernon, Florida
1981 Β· dir. Errol Morris
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7documentary

The shared currency is comfort

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Wind Will Carry Us does

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

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The White Balloon
1995 Β· dir. Jafar Panahi
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· family

Both know what they want from drama

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Testament
1983 Β· dir. Lynne Littman
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9drama Β· science fiction

Drama approached the same way

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks β€” many suffer radiation poisoning β€” the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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Kes
1970 Β· dir. Ken Loach
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9dramaPrime Video

Cut from the same drama cloth

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

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Through the Olive Trees
1994 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.7drama

Abbas Kiarostami directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cozy than The Wind Will Carry Us does

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Storm Boy
1977 Β· dir. Henri Safran
β˜… 6.9drama Β· family

Drama in the same key

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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