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Movies that feel like The Ides of March (2011)

If you loved The Ides of March, the closest films we have are Il Divo (2008), Treeless Mountain (2009) and Summer Hours (2008). All three share The Ides of March's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Clooneycontemplative

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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%7.2drama

The same preoccupation in both: politics

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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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%7.1drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%7.4drama

The same drama instincts

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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Concussion
2015 · dir. Peter Landesman
🍅 58%7.1drama

Drama of the same temperament

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Both play drama straight

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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Shame
2011 · dir. Steve McQueen
🍅 79%7.2drama

Both working the same drama territory

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011 · dir. Marcus Baldini
6.2drama

Drama in the same key

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%8drama

Both are drama through and through

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
6.5drama

Both know what they want from drama

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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