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Movies that feel like Evil (2003)

If you loved Evil, the closest films we have are Brainstorm (2001), You Can Count on Me (2000) and Manderlay (2005). All three share Evil's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mikael Håfströmcontemplative

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%7.5drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%7.2drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

The same drama instincts

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

Both working the same drama territory

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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Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 97%8.1drama

One thread runs through both: oppression

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

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

Both know what they want from 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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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%7.1drama

Both play drama straight

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%7.3drama

Drama in the same key

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%7drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
7drama

Drama of the same temperament

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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