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Movies that feel like The Last King of Scotland (2006)

If you loved The Last King of Scotland, the closest films we have are The Commune (2016), Il Divo (2008) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991). All three share The Last King of Scotland'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.

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.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Macdonaldcontemplative

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

The same preoccupation in both: 1970s

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

One thread runs through both: 1970s

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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Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 97%8.1drama

Both are built on the same subject: polygamy

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 83%7.7drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%7.7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

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

Common ground: affectation

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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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
6.5drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: kidnapping

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Both know what they want from drama

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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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

Both are drama through and through

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

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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