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Movies that feel like Three Colors: Blue (1993)

If you loved Three Colors: Blue, the closest films we have are Blind Chance (1987), A Short Film About Killing (1988) and Places in the Heart (1984). All three share Three Colors: Blue's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Krzysztof Kieślowskicontemplativemelancholyromanticunsettling
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Blind Chance
1987 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 73%7.7drama

The same hand behind both of them: Krzysztof Kieślowski

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

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A Short Film About Killing
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 91%7.9crime · drama

Krzysztof Kieślowski directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as Three Colors: Blue

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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Places in the Heart
1984 · dir. Robert Benton
🍅 90%7.4drama

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: None of the unease Three Colors: Blue is built on

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%8drama

Both are built on the same subject: grief

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%7.2drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Magnolia
1999 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 82%8drama

Romantic drama in both cases

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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Babel
2006 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 68%7.5drama

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%7.5drama

A streak of romance through both

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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Rain Man
1988 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 88%8drama

The shared currency is stillness

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%7.7drama

Both sit in the same melancholy register

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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The Passion of Anna
1969 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.6drama

Both work the same unease

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

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