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Movies that feel likeCrash (2005)

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

If you loved Crash, the closest films we have are Manderlay (2005), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and The Last King of Scotland (2006). All three share Crash's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Brainstorm (2001).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul Haggiscontemplative
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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: race

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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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 83%★ 7.7dramaPrime VideoPeacock

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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The Last King of Scotland
2006 · dir. Kevin Macdonald
🍅 87%★ 7.6drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

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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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaNetflix

Drama in the same key

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?

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I Am Sam
2001 · dir. Jessie Nelson
🍅 35%★ 7.6drama

The same drama instincts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Both know what they want from drama

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

Both working the same drama territory

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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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Both play drama straight

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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Erin Brockovich
2000 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 87%★ 7.5drama

Both are drama through and through

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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

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