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Movies that feel like Ida (2013)

If you loved Ida, the closest films we have are Silent Heart (2014), Aquarius (2016) and Our Little Sister (2015). All three share Ida's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paweł Pawlikowskicontemplative
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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%7.4drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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Our Little Sister
2015 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 93%7.6drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%7.2drama

Both know what they want from drama

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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The Second Mother
2015 · dir. Anna Muylaert
🍅 98%7.8drama

Drama in the same key

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%8drama

Both working the same drama territory

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
7.3drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
6.5drama

Drama of the same temperament

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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

Both are drama through and through

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

Drama approached the same way

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

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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%7.9drama

Both play drama straight

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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