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Movies that feel likeGirl, Interrupted (1999)

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

If you loved Girl, Interrupted, the closest films we have are Magnolia (1999), Taste of Cherry (1997) and Central Station (1998). All three share Girl, Interrupted's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Places in the Heart (1984).

🍅 53% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Mangoldcontemplativewarmmelancholy
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Magnolia
1999 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 82%★ 8dramaMax

One thread runs through both: suicide attempt

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Taste of Cherry
1997 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 82%★ 7.7dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Girl, Interrupted

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%★ 8drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then melancholy

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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Babel
2006 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 68%★ 7.4dramaParamount+

Contemplative drama in both cases

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

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Rocky IV
1985 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 38%★ 6.9drama · actionPrime VideoParamount+

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into action than Girl, Interrupted does

Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen takes him to Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match in the heart of Moscow. But nothing can truly prepare him for what he's about to face – a fight to the finish, in which he must defend not only himself, but also the honor of his country!

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Three Colors: Blue
1993 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 98%★ 7.8dramaMax

The shared currency is stillness

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

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

A streak of melancholy through both

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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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaParamount+

Common ground: a woman at the center

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

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

Both play drama straight

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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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

Drama in the same key

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%★ 7.3dramaRent or buy

The same drama instincts

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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