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Movies that feel likeThe Passion of the Christ (2004)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

If you loved The Passion of the Christ, the closest films we have are Main Hoon Na (2004), Manderlay (2005) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). All three share The Passion of the Christ's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Son's Room (2001).

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mel Gibsoncontemplative
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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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 with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 83%★ 7.7dramaPrime VideoPeacock

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

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

Both play drama straight

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

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The Aviator
2004 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 86%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Drama approached the same way

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Crash
2005 · dir. Paul Haggis
🍅 73%★ 7.7drama

Both know what they want from drama

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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The Last King of Scotland
2006 · dir. Kevin Macdonald
🍅 87%★ 7.6drama

Drama in the same key

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.

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Men of Honor
2000 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 42%★ 7.2dramaPrime Video

The same drama instincts

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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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I Am Sam
2001 · dir. Jessie Nelson
🍅 35%★ 7.6drama

Both working the same drama territory

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

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Erin Brockovich
2000 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 87%★ 7.5drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

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