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Movies that feel likeMarriage Story (2019)

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

If you loved Marriage Story, the closest films we have are Loveless (2017), Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019) and The Hunt (2012). All three share Marriage Story's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Invisible Life (2019).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Noah Baumbachcontemplative
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Loveless
2017 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: divorce

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: parents and children

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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The Hunt
2012 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 92%★ 8.3dramaPrime Video

Common ground: parents and children

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Queen of Hearts
2019 · dir. May el-Toukhy
🍅 97%★ 7drama

One thread runs through both: lawyer

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

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Blue Jasmine
2013 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 90%★ 7.3drama

New York City shapes both of them

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

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Fidelity
2019 · dir. Nigina Sayfullaeva
★ 5.7drama

Both are built on the same subject: infidelity

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

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Moonlight
2016 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 98%★ 7.4dramaNetflixHulu

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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Invisible Life
2019 · dir. Karim Aïnouz
🍅 94%★ 7.7dramaPrime Video

Cut from the same drama cloth

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

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A Separation
2011 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 8.3dramaHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: divorce

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

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To the Bone
2017 · dir. Marti Noxon
🍅 69%★ 6.7dramaNetflix

Drama approached the same way

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

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