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Movies that feel like Demolition (2016)

If you loved Demolition, the closest films we have are Men & Chicken (2015), Drive My Car (2021) and About Endlessness (2019). All three share Demolition'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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

🍅 53% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Marc Valléewittyplayfulcontemplativemelancholydarkly funnyromantic

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Demolition Man (1993)

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: None of the melancholy Demolition is built on

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%7.5drama

The same two preoccupations: infidelity, and grief

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%6.8drama · fantasy · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Missing the melancholy of Demolition

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%7.2comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: infidelity

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · dir. Wolfgang Becker
🍅 91%7.7comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

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A Man Called Ove
2015 · dir. Hannes Holm
🍅 91%7.7comedy · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

Both are built on the same subject: grief

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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A Serious Man
2009 · dir. Ethan Coen
🍅 89%7comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: marijuana

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
7comedy

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · dir. Jan Belcl
5.9comedy · drama · thriller

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Demolition does

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

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Triangle of Sadness
2022 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 71%7.2comedy · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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Carnage
2011 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 71%7.1comedy · drama

Drama built on play, twice over

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

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