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Movies that feel likeMiracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

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.

If you loved Miracle in Cell No. 7, the closest films we have are The Second Mother (2015), Like Father, Like Son (2013) and The Hunt (2012). All three share Miracle in Cell No. 7's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Clergy (2018).

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

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children

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

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

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Marriage Story
2019 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 95%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Pain and Glory
2019 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%★ 7.5drama

Drama in the same key

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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Roma
2018 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 96%★ 7.6dramaNetflix

Both know what they want from drama

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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Loveless
2017 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama

Both working the same drama territory

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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Beautiful Boy
2018 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

The same drama instincts

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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A Hero
2021 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 97%★ 7.5dramaPrime Video

Cut from the same drama cloth

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
★ 7.3dramaNetflix

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Drama of the same temperament

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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