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Movies that feel like Minari (2021)

If you loved Minari, the closest films we have are The Greatest Showman (2017), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Wild Strawberries (1957). All three share Minari's contemplative and dreamlike 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, Cinemax Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

πŸ… 98% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lee Isaac Chungcontemplativedreamlike

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The Greatest Showman
2017 Β· dir. Michael Gracey
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.5drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then dream logic

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2drama

American dream is the engine of both

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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Wild Strawberries
1957 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8.1drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: 64 years apart, and the 1950s show

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

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Tokyo Story
1953 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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Finding Neverland
2004 Β· dir. Marc Forster
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· fantasy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Plays it as fantasy more than Minari does

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boysβ€”who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

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Moonlight
2016 Β· dir. Barry Jenkins
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

The same drama instincts

The difference: None of the dream logic that defines Minari

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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Lion
2016 Β· dir. Garth Davis
πŸ… 84%β˜… 8drama

Both keep circling back to affectation

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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Marriage Story
2019 Β· dir. Noah Baumbach
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama

Both are drama through and through

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

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Roma
2018 Β· dir. Alfonso CuarΓ³n
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6drama

Drama approached the same way

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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The Book Thief
2013 Β· dir. Brian Percival
πŸ… 50%β˜… 7.5drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

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Flight
2012 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.3drama

Drama approached the same way

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

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Miracle in Cell No. 7
2019 Β· dir. Mehmet Ada Γ–ztekin
β˜… 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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