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Movies that feel likePirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

If you loved Pirates of Silicon Valley, the closest films we have are Il Divo (2008), The Commune (2016) and Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002). All three share Pirates of Silicon Valley's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martyn Burkecontemplative
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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Common ground: biography

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%★ 6.4dramaNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.

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Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002 · dir. Stacy Peralta
🍅 92%★ 7.6documentary

Contemplative tv movie in both cases

The difference: Played as documentary first

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.

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

One thread runs through both: biography

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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Stand and Deliver
1988 · dir. Ramón Menéndez
🍅 89%★ 7.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Drama of the same temperament

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

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

Drama in the same key

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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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Both play drama straight

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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Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
1997 · dir. S.R. Bindler
🍅 84%★ 7.6documentary

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Drama approached the same way

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

Both know what they want from drama

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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