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Movies that feel like CODA (2021)

If you loved CODA, the closest films we have are The Bélier Family (2014), Little Women (2019) and Sing Street (2016). All three share CODA's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sian Hedercontemplativestylishromantictenderwistful
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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%7.3comedy · music · drama

Both are working the same pair: deaf, growing up

The difference: None of the romance CODA is built on

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%7.8drama · romance

Common ground: massachusetts

The difference: Not nearly as stylish as CODA

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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Sing Street
2016 · dir. John Carney
🍅 95%7.9romance · drama · music

The same two preoccupations: singing, and family

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than CODA does

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%7.4romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: first love

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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Cold War
2018 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 92%7.5romance · music · drama

Contemplative and stylish in the same breath

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

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Where the Crawdads Sing
2022 · dir. Olivia Newman
🍅 34%7.2drama · mystery · romance

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

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A Beautiful Life
2023 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 33%6.4drama · music · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.

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A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016 · dir. Naoko Yamada
8.2animation · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: deaf

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
7.4animation · drama · romance

Wistful drama, and it commits to that

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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Once
2007 · dir. John Carney
🍅 97%7.8drama · music · romance

Music with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 95%7.8romance · drama

One thread runs through both: first love

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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Dirty Dancing
1987 · dir. Emile Ardolino
🍅 73%7.1drama · music · romance

Both lean on style more than on romance

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

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