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Movies that feel like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

If you loved Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, the closest films we have are After the Wedding (2006), Yi Yi (2000) and The Sea Inside (2004). All three share Bhaag Milkha Bhaag's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 71% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehracontemplativeromantic

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After the Wedding
2006 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7drama

Both are built on the same subject: family

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 Β· dir. Edward Yang
β˜… 8.1drama

One thread runs through both: family

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 Β· dir. Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

RamΓ³n Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. RamΓ³n 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, RamΓ³n manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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Loveless
2017 Β· dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Floating Weeds
1959 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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When We Were Kings
1996 Β· dir. Leon Gast
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9documentary

Common ground: sports documentary

The difference: None of the stillness Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is built on

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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Rocky Balboa
2006 Β· dir. Sylvester Stallone
πŸ… 78%β˜… 7.1drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fight

When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history!

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East of Eden
1955 Β· dir. Elia Kazan
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8drama

The same preoccupation in both: love

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

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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From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 Β· dir. Goro Miyazaki
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4animation Β· drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Bhaag Milkha Bhaag does

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympicsβ€”and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shunβ€”but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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Rang De Basanti
2006 Β· dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama Β· history

The same hand behind both of them: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.

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Head-On
2004 Β· dir. Fatih Akin
β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Drama built on romance, twice over

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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I Don't Want to Go Back Alone
2011 Β· dir. Daniel Ribeiro
β˜… 8.2drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.

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