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Movies that feel like Manderlay (2005)

If you loved Manderlay, the closest films we have are Main Hoon Na (2004), Summer Hours (2008) and Evil (2003). All three share Manderlay'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MGM Plus and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lars von Triercontemplative
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If Manderlay hit the spot, these will too

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%7.7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

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

Drama in the same key

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

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

Drama of the same temperament

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

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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

Both play drama straight

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

Drama approached the same way

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

The same drama instincts

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

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Both know what they want from drama

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 working the same drama territory

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 Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%7.3drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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