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Movies that feel likeRoma (2018)

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

If you loved Roma, the closest films we have are The Commune (2016), Our Little Sister (2015) and Fences (2016). All three share Roma's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is About Elly (2009).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfonso Cuaróncontemplative
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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%★ 6.4dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Our Little Sister
2015 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 93%★ 7.6drama

Common ground: family relationships

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

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Fences
2016 · dir. Denzel Washington
🍅 92%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: family relationships

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

The same preoccupation in both: middle class

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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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

One thread runs through both: black and white

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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A Separation
2011 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%★ 8.3dramaHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: maid

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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The Butler
2013 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%★ 7.2drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

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

Both know what they want from drama

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

Both play drama straight

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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