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Movies that feel like Men of Honor (2000)

If you loved Men of Honor, the closest films we have are The Son's Room (2001), You Can Count on Me (2000) and I Am Sam (2001). All three share Men of Honor's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.

🍅 42% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Tillman Jr.contemplative
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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%7.3drama

The same preoccupation in both: diving

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

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I Am Sam
2001 · dir. Jessie Nelson
🍅 35%7.6drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

Both working the same drama territory

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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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%7.2drama

The same drama instincts

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.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

Both play drama straight

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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Taste of Cherry
1997 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 82%7.7drama

Drama approached the same way

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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The Celebration
1998 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 91%8drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 83%7.7drama

Both are drama through and through

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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