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Movies that feel likeWhere Is The Friend's House? (1987)

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

If you loved Where Is The Friend's House?, the closest films we have are Dersu Uzala (1975), The Elephant Man (1980) and Wendy and Lucy (2008). All three share Where Is The Friend's House?'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 Koi... Mil Gaya (2003).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Abbas Kiarostamicontemplativeepicwarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Through the Olive Trees (1994)

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Dersu Uzala
1975 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 73%★ 8.2adventure · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

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The Elephant Man
1980 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 91%★ 8.2drama · history

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Played as history first

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%★ 7.1drama

Common ground: journey

The difference: Lighter on scale

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.

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The Hidden Fortress
1958 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 96%★ 8drama · action · adventureMax

Contemplative adventure in both cases

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

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Both lean on warmth more than on drama

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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The Wages of Fear
1953 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · thriller · adventureMax

Adventure built on scale, twice over

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

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Thelma & Louise
1991 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 87%★ 7.6drama · crime · adventurePrime VideoHulu

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

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Dances with Wolves
1990 · dir. Kevin Costner
🍅 87%★ 8adventure · drama · westernPrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: village

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

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The Black Stallion
1979 · dir. Carroll Ballard
🍅 90%★ 7.4family · adventure

Both run warm where it counts

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

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Society of the Snow
2023 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 90%★ 7.8drama · historyNetflix

Cut from the same drama cloth

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

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Koi... Mil Gaya
2003 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 80%★ 7.2science fiction · action · adventure

Adventure of the same temperament

A developmentally disabled boy's life changes after he encounters an extraterrestrial being.

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