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Movies that feel likeOur Little Sister (2015)

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

If you loved Our Little Sister, the closest films we have are Like Father, Like Son (2013), Broker (2022) and Invisible Life (2019). All three share Our Little Sister'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).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hirokazu Kore-edacontemplative
9 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · OVID · AMC+

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

The same hand behind both of them: Hirokazu Kore-eda

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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Broker
2022 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama

Hirokazu Kore-eda working the same nerve twice

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

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

The same preoccupation in both: sisters

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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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%★ 8drama

The same two preoccupations: japan, and family relationships

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%★ 7.2drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011 · dir. Marcus Baldini
★ 6.2dramaRent or buy

Common ground: a woman at the center

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

The same drama instincts

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 7.9drama

Both know what they want from drama

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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