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Movies that feel like Late Spring (1949)

If you loved Late Spring, the closest films we have are An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952). All three share Late Spring's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yasujirō Ozucontemplative

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Spring (2014)

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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 95%8drama

Both are Yasujirō Ozu films, and they rhyme

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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Bicycle Thieves
1948 · dir. Vittorio De Sica
🍅 99%8.2drama

Both built around black and white

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

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Umberto D.
1952 · dir. Vittorio De Sica
🍅 98%8.1drama

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
🍅 100%8.4drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

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12 Angry Men
1957 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 100%9drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%8.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: 55 years apart, and the 2000s show

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

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Roma
2018 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 96%7.6drama

Both are drama through and through

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

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American History X
1998 · dir. Tony Kaye
🍅 84%8.5drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

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The Help
2011 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 75%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

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The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 · dir. Gabriele Muccino
🍅 67%8drama

The same drama instincts

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

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The Social Network
2010 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 96%7.8drama

Drama approached the same way

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

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Miracle in Cell No. 7
2019 · dir. Mehmet Ada Öztekin
8.2drama

Both are drama through and through

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

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