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Movies that feel like The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

If you loved The Motorcycle Diaries, the closest films we have are Evil (2003), Carandiru (2003) and Silenced (2011). All three share The Motorcycle Diaries' 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, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Walter Sallescontemplative
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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%7.7drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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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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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

The same drama instincts

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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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
7.1drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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You Can Count on Me
2000 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 95%7.5drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%7.3drama

Drama in the same key

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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

Both are drama through and through

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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About Elly
2009 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 99%7.9drama

Drama approached the same way

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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Taste of Cherry
1997 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 82%7.7drama

Both play drama straight

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

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

Both working the same drama territory

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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