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Movies that feel like Marie Antoinette (2006)

If you loved Marie Antoinette, the closest films we have are I'm Still Here (2024), The King's Speech (2010) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). All three share Marie Antoinette's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sofia Coppolacontemplativeepicmelancholy
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I'm Still Here
2024 · dir. Walter Salles
8.2drama · history

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

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The King's Speech
2010 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 94%8drama · history

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 35%7.3drama · romance · history

Both are built on the same subject: period drama

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Marie Antoinette does

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Apocalypto
2006 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 65%7.8action · drama · history

Common ground: affectation

The difference: Leans harder into action than Marie Antoinette does

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%8drama

Both lean on stillness more than on history

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Marie Antoinette

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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Hero
2002 · dir. Zhang Yimou
7.9drama · adventure · action

Drama built on scale, twice over

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%7.3drama

Melancholy history in both cases

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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The Danish Girl
2015 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 66%7.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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The Look of Silence
2014 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%8.2history · documentary

History with a pulse of scale, in both cases

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%7.2drama

Both work the same melancholy

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2001 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 95%8.1adventure · drama · history

The same preoccupation in both: period drama

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain Russell has imposed an unprecedented land tax on its citizens. Outraged, Bhuvan, a rebellious farmer, rallies the villagers to publicly oppose the tax. Russell offers a novel way to settle the dispute: he challenges Bhuvan and his men to a game of cricket, a sport completely foreign to India. If Bhuvan and his men can defeat Russell's team, the tax will be repealed.

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Manchester by the Sea
2016 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 96%7.8drama

Both working the same drama territory

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

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