
Movies that feel like Drive My Car (2021)
If you loved Drive My Car, the closest films we have are Lilting (2014), Nobody Knows (2004) and The Quiet Girl (2022). All three share Drive My Car's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.
If Drive My Car hit the spot, these will too


Both are built on the same subject: japan

The same mix in both: stillness, then melancholy

One thread runs through both: grief

Romantic drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Contemplative drama in both cases

Drama built on melancholy, twice over
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A streak of romance through both

The same preoccupation in both: road trip
The difference: None of the romance Drive My Car is built on

Both are Ryusuke Hamaguchi's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Missing the melancholy of Drive My Car

Both keep coming back to the same thing: road trip

Both keep coming back to the same thing: infidelity
The difference: Leans harder into romance than Drive My Car does
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