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Movies that feel like Il Divo (2008)

If you loved Il Divo, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), The Commune (2016) and Summer Hours (2008). All three share Il Divo's contemplative 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 MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paolo Sorrentinocontemplative

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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
7.3drama

Common ground: biography

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%6.4drama

Both are built on the same subject: 1970s

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%7.2drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

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

The same drama instincts

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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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%7.4drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

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.

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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Drama of the same temperament

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

Both are drama through and through

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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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

Both play drama straight

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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