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Movies that feel like The Trip to Bountiful (1985)

If you loved The Trip to Bountiful, the closest films we have are Paris, Texas (1984), Stalker (1979) and The Man from Earth (2007). All three share The Trip to Bountiful's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Mastersoncontemplativecerebral

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Trip (2011)

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Paris, Texas
1984 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 95%8.1drama

The same preoccupation in both: texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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Stalker
1979 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 100%8science fiction · drama

Contemplative where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Leans science fiction where The Trip to Bountiful does not

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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The Man from Earth
2007 · dir. Richard Schenkman
🍅 100%7.8science fiction · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

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Another Earth
2011 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 66%6.9drama · science fiction

Both trade on ideas more than on being drama

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.

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Mysterious Skin
2005 · dir. Gregg Araki
🍅 86%7.6drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

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

Based on play or musical and elderly lady, at the center of both

The difference: Missing the ideas of The Trip to Bountiful

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

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Aftersun
2022 · dir. Charlotte Wells
🍅 95%7.6drama

Memory is the engine of both

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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Rocky III
1982 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 66%6.9drama

The same drama instincts

Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.

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Philadelphia
1993 · dir. Jonathan Demme
🍅 81%7.7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

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Scent of a Woman
1992 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 82%8drama

Both are drama through and through

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

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

Drama approached the same way

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

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