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Movies that feel like The Right of Youth (1911)

If you loved The Right of Youth, the closest films we have are Nanook of the North (1922), The Commune (2016) and Ulee's Gold (1997). All three share The Right of Youth's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Court huntsman, Søtoft, is courting his daughter Else’s lady-in-waiting, Miss Engelke. That’s why it’s a bit of a punch in the stomach when, late one evening, he discovers his son Ove in close contact with her. Chamberlain von Plessen, who had been gossiping to Søtoft and is himself spying on the young couple, is going to set fire to the room they’re in. The hurt Søtoft wants to leave the young couple to their cruel fate – that is until he discovers that it’s not Engelke, but his daughter Else, who is trapped in the flames with her brother. (Stumfilm.dk)

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Nanook of the North
1922 · dir. Robert Flaherty
🍅 100%7.6documentary · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Right of Youth does

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: 105 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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 of the same temperament

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

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%7.1drama

Both are drama through and through

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

The same drama instincts

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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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
7.3drama

Drama approached the same way

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
7.7drama

Both working the same drama territory

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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Hamlet
1948 · dir. Laurence Olivier
🍅 96%7.6drama

Drama in the same key

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

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Drunken Angel
1948 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 94%7.6drama

Both play drama straight

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

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