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Movies that feel likeUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

Suffering from a kidney disease and sure of his death, Uncle Boonmee assembles his relatives in the countryside. He reminisces about his past lives and plans to visit a place before dying.

If you loved Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the closest films we have are The Master and Margarita (2024), After Life (1999) and The Tree of Life (2011). All three share Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Chinese Ghost Story (1987).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakulcontemplativedreamlike
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The Master and Margarita
2024 · dir. Michael Lockshin
★ 7.1fantasy · drama

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

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After Life
1999 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 88%★ 7.6fantasy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

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The Tree of Life
2011 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 86%★ 6.8drama · fantasy

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

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Finding Neverland
2004 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 83%★ 7.6drama · fantasyRent or buy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

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Russian Ark
2002 · dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
🍅 89%★ 7.2drama · fantasy · history

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as history first

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

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I Am Dragon
2015 · dir. Indar Dzhendubaev
★ 6.8fantasy · romancePrime Video

Fantasy in the same key

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island? Miroslava will know the truth too late: loving a dragon will reveal the bitter truth - love is scary.

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Upon the Magic Roads
2021 · dir. Oleg Pogodin
★ 5.7adventure · fantasy

The same fantasy instincts

The difference: Lighter on stillness

Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

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Border
2018 · dir. Ali Abbasi
🍅 97%★ 7fantasy · drama · crime

Both working the same drama territory

The difference: Leans further into crime

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

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Tokyo Story
1953 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%★ 8.1dramaMax

Common ground: fish

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

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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A Chinese Ghost Story
1987 · dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung
🍅 70%★ 7.3fantasy · actionPrime Video

Both know what they want from fantasy

A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.

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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 · dir. Isao Takahata
🍅 100%★ 8animation · drama · fantasyMax

Cut from the same drama cloth

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

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Horns
2013 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 41%★ 6.4drama · fantasy · thrillerPrime Video

Both play drama straight

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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