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Movies that feel like Blind Chance (1987)

If you loved Blind Chance, the closest films we have are A Short Film About Killing (1988), Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Beautiful Boy (2018). All three share Blind Chance's contemplative and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 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.

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Krzysztof Kieślowskicontemplativeunsettling
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A Short Film About Killing
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 91%7.9crime · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Krzysztof Kieślowski

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Blind Chance does

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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Three Colors: Blue
1993 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 98%7.8drama

Both are Krzysztof Kieślowski's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Reviewed even better

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

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Beautiful Boy
2018 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%7.4drama

One thread runs through both: psychological drama

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

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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Corpus Christi
2019 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 98%7.7drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological drama

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

Both land stillness and unease at once

The difference: Leans harder into horror than Blind Chance does

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%7.1drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: None of the unease Blind Chance is built on

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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Compliance
2012 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 89%6.4drama · thriller

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%7.2drama · fantasy · horror

Contemplative drama in both cases

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

Drama of the same temperament

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%7drama

The same drama instincts

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
7drama

Both know what they want from drama

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
7.2mystery · horror · drama

Both run unsettling where it counts

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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