Movies that feel likeAnother Round (2020)

Name: Another Round
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Genre: drama
Released: 2020

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

If you loved Another Round, the closest films we have are In a Better World (2010), Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Remember the Titans (2000). All three share Another Round's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Faces Places (2017).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Thomas Vinterbergcontemplative warm

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If Another Round hit the spot, these will too

In a Better World

2010 · dir. Susanne Bier

🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Wendy and Lucy

2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt

🍅 85%★ 7.1drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

Remember the Titans

2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin

🍅 72%★ 7.8dramaHuluDisney+

Both land stillness and warmth at once

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

Faces Places

2017 · dir. Agnès Varda

🍅 99%★ 7.8documentary

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Another Round does

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

La Haine

1995 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz

🍅 96%★ 8.1drama

Warm drama, and it commits to that

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Good Will Hunting

1997 · dir. Gus Van Sant

🍅 97%★ 8.4dramaApple TV+Paramount+

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.

Perfect Strangers

2016 · dir. Paolo Genovese

🍅 79%★ 7.7drama

The shared currency is warmth

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

The Hunt

2012 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg

🍅 92%★ 8.3dramaPrime Video

Thomas Vinterberg directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Another Round does

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

The Illusionist

2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet

🍅 90%★ 7.4animation · drama

Drama approached the same way

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

Society of the Snow

2023 · dir. J. A. Bayona

🍅 90%★ 7.8drama · historyNetflix

Both working the same drama territory

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Pleasure

2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg

🍅 88%★ 6.3dramaRent or buy

Drama in the same key

Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.

The Commune

2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg

🍅 71%★ 6.4dramaNetflix

Thomas Vinterberg working the same nerve twice

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.