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Movies that feel like Pleasure (2021)

If you loved Pleasure, the closest films we have are Wendy and Lucy (2008), In a Better World (2010) and The Illusionist (2010). All three share Pleasure's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ninja Thybergcontemplativewarm

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%7.1drama

Both land stillness and warmth at once

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%7.6drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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The Illusionist
2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
🍅 90%7.4animation · drama

Warm drama in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Pleasure does

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

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Girl, Interrupted
1999 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 53%7.3drama

Both are working the same pair: female friendship, a woman at the center

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Missing the warmth of Pleasure

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Remember the Titans
2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 72%7.8drama

Both sit in the same warm register

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2000s show

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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Faces Places
2017 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 99%7.8documentary

Products of the same few years

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

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Midnight Cowboy
1969 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 89%7.8drama

Both are drama through and through

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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Rocky V
1990 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 31%5.4drama

Drama in the same key

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

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La Haine
1995 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
🍅 96%8.1drama

Both know what they want from drama

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: female friendship

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%7.4drama · crime

Cut from the same drama cloth

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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