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Movies that feel like Irumudi (2026)

If you loved Irumudi, the closest films we have are Silent Heart (2014), Treeless Mountain (2009) and The Overnighters (2014). All three share Irumudi's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

An alcoholic with a violent past—living peacefully with his daughter beside a waterfall—decides to take Ayyappa Deeksha (a 41-day spiritual vow and period of intense austerity) at her request.

6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Shiva Nirvanacontemplative

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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The Overnighters
2014 · dir. Jesse Moss
🍅 97%7.4drama · documentary

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Irumudi does

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

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Late Spring
1949 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%8.2drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: father daughter relationship

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
7drama

Both know what they want from drama

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

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

Both working the same drama territory

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

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

Both play drama straight

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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

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

Drama in the same key

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

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

Both are drama through and through

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

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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