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Movies that feel likeThe Hunt (2012)

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

If you loved The Hunt, the closest films we have are The Commune (2016), Like Father, Like Son (2013) and A Separation (2011). All three share The Hunt's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Teachers' Lounge (2023).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Thomas Vinterbergcontemplative
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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%★ 6.4dramaNetflix

Thomas Vinterberg working the same nerve twice

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

Both are working the same pair: parents and children, father

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

Both are built on the same subject: divorce

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

One thread runs through both: divorce

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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The Second Mother
2015 · dir. Anna Muylaert
🍅 98%★ 7.8drama

Common ground: parents and children

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: tragedy

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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The Teachers' Lounge
2023 · dir. İlker Çatak
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: teacher

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

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Miracle in Cell No. 7
2019 · dir. Mehmet Ada Öztekin
★ 8.2dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

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

Both are built on the same subject: father

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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Marriage Story
2019 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 95%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 91%★ 8.2dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Contemplative drama in both cases

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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The Fighter
2010 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 91%★ 7.8dramaParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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