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Movies that feel like Chak De! India (2007)

If you loved Chak De! India, the closest films we have are Summer Hours (2008), Evil (2003) and The Fool (2014). All three share Chak De! India's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Shimit Amincontemplative
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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%7.1drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%7.7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%8drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Both play drama straight

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%7.2drama

Drama approached the same way

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%7.9drama

Both know what they want from drama

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%7.5drama

Both working the same drama territory

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

Drama in the same key

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%7.2drama

The same drama instincts

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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Invisible Life
2019 · dir. Karim Aïnouz
🍅 94%7.7drama

Drama of the same temperament

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

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