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Movies that feel likeWendy and Lucy (2008)

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

If you loved Wendy and Lucy, the closest films we have are In a Better World (2010), Faces Places (2017) and Remember the Titans (2000). All three share Wendy and Lucy's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kelly Reichardtcontemplativewarm
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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Faces Places
2017 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 99%★ 7.8documentary

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Wendy and Lucy does

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

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Remember the Titans
2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 72%★ 7.8dramaDisney+

The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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Another Round
2020 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 93%★ 7.7dramaNetflix

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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The Illusionist
2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
🍅 90%★ 7.4animation · drama

Warm drama, and it commits to that

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

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With a Friend Like Harry...
2000 · dir. Dominik Moll
🍅 96%★ 7.1drama · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: family

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.

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Pleasure
2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg
🍅 88%★ 6.3dramaRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.

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La Haine
1995 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
🍅 96%★ 8.1drama

The shared currency is warmth

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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Where Is The Friend's House?
1987 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · adventure

Common ground: journey

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1980s show

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · crime

The same drama instincts

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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Good Will Hunting
1997 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 97%★ 8.4dramaApple TV+Paramount+

Both working the same drama territory

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2008 · dir. Sacha Gervasi
🍅 98%★ 7.9documentary · musicPrime Video

Products of the same few years

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

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