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Movies that feel like Biutiful (2010)

If you loved Biutiful, the closest films we have are Like Father, Like Son (2013), Leave No Trace (2018) and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024). All three share Biutiful's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritucontemplativewistful
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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%7.8drama

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%7.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 · dir. Pat Boonnitipat
🍅 98%7.9drama

Both lean on wistfulness more than on drama

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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Boyhood
2014 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 97%7.9drama

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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Malena
2000 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 54%7.4drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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House of Hummingbird
2019 · dir. Kim Bora
🍅 98%7.4drama

Both sit in the same wistful register

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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The Straight Story
1999 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 95%8drama · adventure

Common ground: nostalgic

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Biutiful does

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

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Mysterious Skin
2005 · dir. Gregg Araki
🍅 86%7.6drama

Both play drama straight

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

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Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · dir. Nicholas Ray
🍅 91%7.6drama

Drama in the same key

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

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%7.3comedy · drama

Drama approached the same way

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Biutiful does

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 91%8drama · action · crime

Both know what they want from drama

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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Aftersun
2022 · dir. Charlotte Wells
🍅 95%7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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