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Movies that feel likeSeven Pounds (2008)

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

If you loved Seven Pounds, the closest films we have are The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Son's Room (2001) and The Last King of Scotland (2006). All three share Seven Pounds' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

πŸ… 26% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Gabriele Muccinocontemplative
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The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 Β· dir. Gabriele Muccino
πŸ… 67%β˜… 8drama

Gabriele Muccino working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

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The Son's Room
2001 Β· dir. Nanni Moretti
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: sadness

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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The Last King of Scotland
2006 Β· dir. Kevin Macdonald
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.6drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

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Il Divo
2008 Β· dir. Paolo Sorrentino
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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About Elly
2009 Β· dir. Asghar Farhadi
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.9drama

Both lean on stillness more than on 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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Summer Hours
2008 Β· dir. Olivier Assayas
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1drama

Both play drama straight

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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The Fighter
2010 Β· dir. David O. Russell
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8dramaParamount+

Both working the same drama territory

Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

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Crash
2005 Β· dir. Paul Haggis
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.7drama

Drama in the same key

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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Chak De! India
2007 Β· dir. Shimit Amin
πŸ… 90%β˜… 8.1dramaNetflix

Both know what they want from drama

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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The Aviator
2004 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.5dramaParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 Β· dir. Walter Salles
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.7dramaPrime VideoPeacock

The same drama instincts

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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Treeless Mountain
2009 Β· dir. So Yong Kim
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7drama

Both are drama through and through

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

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