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Movies that feel like Floating Weeds (1959)

If you loved Floating Weeds, the closest films we have are Rocky II (1979), Rocky Balboa (2006) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). All three share Floating Weeds'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 Netflix, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yasujirō Ozucontemplativeromantic

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Rocky II
1979 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 68%7.3drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.

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Rocky Balboa
2006 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 78%7.1drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: 47 years apart, and the 2000s show

When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history!

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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 95%8drama

Yasujirō Ozu directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the romance that defines Floating Weeds

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

Both are Yasujirō Ozu films, and they rhyme

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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Rocky
1976 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 93%8.1drama

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!

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Tokyo Story
1953 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%8.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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Rain Man
1988 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 88%8drama

Romance is the shared currency

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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Places in the Heart
1984 · dir. Robert Benton
🍅 90%7.4drama

Drama approached the same way

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

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Perfect Strangers
2016 · dir. Paolo Genovese
🍅 79%7.7drama

Both keep circling back to love

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

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Magnolia
1999 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 82%8drama

Both are drama through and through

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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The Whale
2022 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 64%7.6drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%8drama

The same drama instincts

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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