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Movies that feel like I'm Still Here (2024)

If you loved I'm Still Here, the closest films we have are Central Station (1998), The King's Speech (2010) and Marie Antoinette (2006). All three share I'm Still Here's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Walter Sallescontemplativeepicmelancholy
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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%8drama

Walter Salles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the scale of I'm Still Here

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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The King's Speech
2010 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 94%8drama · history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

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Marie Antoinette
2006 · dir. Sofia Coppola
🍅 58%6.5drama · history

Both land stillness and scale at once

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%7.5drama · history

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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The Look of Silence
2014 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%8.2history · documentary

Melancholy history, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than I'm Still Here does

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%7.5drama

One thread runs through both: grief

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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Oppenheimer
2023 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 93%8.2drama · history

The same two preoccupations: husband wife relationship, and interrogation

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%7.3drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

Common ground: grief

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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The Holdovers
2023 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 97%7.9drama · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: 1970s

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than I'm Still Here does

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

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Manchester by the Sea
2016 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 96%7.8drama

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%7.7drama

Contemplative history in both cases

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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