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Movies that feel like Ulee's Gold (1997)

If you loved Ulee's Gold, the closest films we have are The Passion of the Christ (2004), You Can Count on Me (2000) and American History X (1998). All three share Ulee's Gold's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Apple TV, fuboTV and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Victor Nuñezcontemplative

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If Ulee's Gold hit the spot, these will too

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The Passion of the Christ
2004 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 50%7.3drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

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American History X
1998 · dir. Tony Kaye
🍅 84%8.5drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

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

The same drama instincts

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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The Aviator
2004 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 86%7.5drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Moonlight
2016 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 98%7.4drama

Florida runs into parents and children in each of them

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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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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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

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

The same drama instincts

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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Crash
2005 · dir. Paul Haggis
🍅 73%7.7drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 · dir. Gabriele Muccino
🍅 67%8drama

Drama approached the same way

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

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Seven Pounds
2008 · dir. Gabriele Muccino
🍅 26%7.6drama

The same drama instincts

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

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