
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.
If Biutiful hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: Reviewed even better

Both lean on wistfulness more than on drama

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic


Both sit in the same wistful register

Common ground: nostalgic
The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Biutiful does


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

Drama approached the same way
The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Biutiful does

Both know what they want from drama

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