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Movies that feel like The Bélier Family (2014)

If you loved The Bélier Family, the closest films we have are Eighth Grade (2018), Sound of Metal (2020) and Sing Street (2016). All three share The Bélier Family's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Éric Lartigauwittyplayfulstylishcontemplativewistful

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%7.3comedy · drama

Both are working the same pair: growing up, teenage girl

The difference: Not nearly as stylish as The Bélier Family

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Sound of Metal
2020 · dir. Darius Marder
🍅 97%7.7drama · music

Common ground in both: deaf and sign languages

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

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Sing Street
2016 · dir. John Carney
🍅 95%7.9romance · drama · music

The same two preoccupations: singing, and family

The difference: Sits closer to romance than The Bélier Family does

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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Almost Famous
2000 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 91%7.9drama · music

One thread runs through both: growing up

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%7.3comedy · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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3 Idiots
2009 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 94%8.4drama · comedy

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

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The Chorus
2004 · dir. Christophe Barratier
🍅 68%7.8drama · comedy · music

Comedy built on style, twice over

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%7.1drama

The same preoccupation in both: teenage girl

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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Booksmart
2019 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 96%7.1comedy

Witty music, and it commits to that

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%6.7comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%7.2comedy · music

Both lean on style more than on comedy

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%7.4drama · comedy · music

Contemplative music in both cases

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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