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Movies that feel like Hope (2013)

If you loved Hope, the closest films we have are Awakenings (1990), Departures (2008) and In America (2003). All three share Hope's contemplative and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

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Awakenings
1990 · dir. Penny Marshall
🍅 81%7.8drama

Two things both keep coming back to: hope and a true story

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1990s show

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%8drama

Contemplative where it counts, hopeful underneath

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%7.7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Moneyball
2011 · dir. Bennett Miller
🍅 94%7.6drama

Common ground: a true story

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

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The Blind Side
2009 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 66%7.6drama

Drama built on hope, twice over

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%8drama

Both are working the same pair: child abuse, south korea

The difference: Missing the hope of Hope

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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Swades
2004 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 90%8.2drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

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Fearless
2006 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 73%7.6drama · action

Both are built on the same subject: hope

The difference: Sits closer to action than Hope does

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
6.5drama

A streak of hope through both

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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My Name Is Khan
2010 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance

Both know what they want from drama

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Hope does

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Upstream Color
2013 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 87%6.5drama · science fiction

Both are drama through and through

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

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Creed
2015 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 95%7.6drama

The same drama instincts

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

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