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Movies that feel like Drunken Angel (1948)

If you loved Drunken Angel, the closest films we have are An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Sansho the Bailiff (1954) and Hamlet (1948). All three share Drunken Angel's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Akira Kurosawacontemplative
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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 95%8drama

One thread runs through both: japan

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
🍅 100%8.4drama

The same preoccupation in both: japan

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

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Hamlet
1948 · dir. Laurence Olivier
🍅 96%7.6drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

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Germany, Year Zero
1948 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%7.8drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

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Late Spring
1949 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%8.2drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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How Green Was My Valley
1941 · dir. John Ford
🍅 93%7.7drama

Both are drama through and through

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

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Ordet
1955 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 100%8.2drama

Both know what they want from drama

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

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Umberto D.
1952 · dir. Vittorio De Sica
🍅 98%8.1drama

Drama of the same temperament

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: doctor

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.9drama

Drama approached the same way

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

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Animal Farm
1954 · dir. Joy Batchelor
🍅 69%7.2animation · drama

Both working the same drama territory

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Drunken Angel does

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · dir. Richard Brooks
🍅 97%7.9drama

Drama in the same key

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

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