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Movies that feel like The Square (2017)

If you loved The Square, the closest films we have are Force Majeure (2014), Triangle of Sadness (2022) and The Great Beauty (2013). All three share The Square's contemplative and darkly funny feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 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.

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ruben Östlundcontemplativedarkly funny
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Force Majeure
2014 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 94%7.2drama

Ruben Östlund working the same nerve twice

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

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Triangle of Sadness
2022 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 71%7.2comedy · drama

Ruben Östlund directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than The Square does

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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The Great Beauty
2013 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 91%7.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: satire

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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Network
1976 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 90%8.1drama

One thread runs through both: satire

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Contemplative where it counts, darkly funny underneath

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%7.2comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 · dir. Umesh Shukla
8.1comedy · drama

Darkly funny drama in both cases

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

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Carnage
2011 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 71%7.1comedy · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

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🍅 85%6.6comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satirical

The difference: None of the stillness The Square is built on

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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The Holy Mountain
1973 · dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
🍅 85%7.7drama

Both sit in the same darkly funny register

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

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American Beauty
1999 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 87%8.3drama

Both play drama straight

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.7drama · comedy · crime

The same drama instincts

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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