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Movies that feel like Green Fish (1997)

If you loved Green Fish, the closest films we have are Ulee's Gold (1997), The Son's Room (2001) and The Passion of the Christ (2004). All three share Green Fish's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lee Chang-dongcontemplative

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If Green Fish hit the spot, these will too

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

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

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The Passion of the Christ
2004 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 50%7.3drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

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

The same drama instincts

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

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American History X
1998 · dir. Tony Kaye
🍅 84%8.5drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

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Philadelphia
1993 · dir. Jonathan Demme
🍅 81%7.7drama

Both are drama through and through

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

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The Aviator
2004 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 86%7.5drama

Drama approached the same way

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

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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Scent of a Woman
1992 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 82%8drama

Both are drama through and through

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

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

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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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