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Movies that feel like The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

If you loved The Wind Will Carry Us, the closest films we have are Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Housekeeping (1987) and Sweet Bean (2015). All three share The Wind Will Carry Us' contemplative and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Criterion Channel and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

πŸ… 97% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Abbas Kiarostamicontemplativecozy
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Diary of a Country Priest
1951 Β· dir. Robert Bresson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7drama

The same two preoccupations: small town life, and rural area

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

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Housekeeping
1987 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: small town life

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than The Wind Will Carry Us does

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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Sweet Bean
2015 Β· dir. Naomi Kawase
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.4drama

Both land stillness and comfort at once

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

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The White Balloon
1995 Β· dir. Jafar Panahi
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· family

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to family than The Wind Will Carry Us does

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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The Judge
2014 Β· dir. David Dobkin
πŸ… 49%β˜… 7.4drama

Cozy drama in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

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Taste of Cherry
1997 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.7drama

Abbas Kiarostami working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the comfort of The Wind Will Carry Us

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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Columbus
2017 Β· dir. Kogonada
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.2drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.

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Corpus Christi
2019 Β· dir. Jan Komasa
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.7drama

A streak of comfort through both

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

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Testament
1983 Β· dir. Lynne Littman
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9drama Β· science fiction

Drama approached the same way

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks β€” many suffer radiation poisoning β€” the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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Local Hero
1983 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

The same drama instincts

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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Storm Boy
1977 Β· dir. Henri Safran
β˜… 6.9drama Β· family

Drama in the same key

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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Children of Heaven
1997 Β· dir. Majid Majidi
πŸ… 83%β˜… 8.2drama Β· family

Cut from the same drama cloth

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

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