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Movies that feel likeSummer Hours (2008)

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

If you loved Summer Hours, the closest films we have are Treeless Mountain (2009), The Whales of August (1987) and You Can Count on Me (2000). All three share Summer Hours' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ulee's Gold (1997).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Olivier Assayascontemplative
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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%★ 7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%★ 7.1drama

Both are built on the same subject: brothers and sisters

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: brothers and sisters

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Both working the same drama territory

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

Drama approached the same way

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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Godland
2022 · dir. Hlynur Pálmason
🍅 91%★ 7.1dramaRent or buy

Both play drama straight

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

Drama in the same key

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

Both know what they want from drama

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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Through the Olive Trees
1994 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.7drama

The same drama instincts

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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