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Movies that feel like A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

If you loved A Streetcar Named Desire, the closest films we have are Winter Light (1963), The Last Laugh (1924) and A Man Escaped (1956). All three share A Streetcar Named Desire's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Elia Kazancontemplativetensemelancholy
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If A Streetcar Named Desire hit the spot, these will too

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Winter Light
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 77%8drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

The difference: Not nearly as tense as A Streetcar Named Desire

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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The Last Laugh
1924 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 100%8drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1920s show

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

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A Man Escaped
1956 · dir. Robert Bresson
🍅 100%8.2drama · thriller

Common ground: black and white

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

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

Elia Kazan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Blow-Up
1966 · dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
🍅 87%7.4drama · mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: loss of sense of reality

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than A Streetcar Named Desire does

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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Sunset Boulevard
1950 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 98%8.4drama

The same preoccupation in both: loss of sense of reality

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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The Salesman
2016 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: rape

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

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Open Your Eyes
1997 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 87%7.7drama · thriller · science fiction

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

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Yojimbo
1961 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 96%8.2drama · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

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

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

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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Brothers
2009 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 63%7.1drama · thriller · war

The same two preoccupations: brothers and sisters, and brother-in-law

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%8drama

The same preoccupation in both: family relationships

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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