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Movies that feel like Wild Strawberries (1957)

If you loved Wild Strawberries, the closest films we have are Tokyo Story (1953), The Greatest Showman (2017) and There Will Be Blood (2007). All three share Wild Strawberries's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

๐Ÿ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesโ˜… 8.1 IMDb โ†—TMDB โ†—dir. Ingmar Bergmancontemplativedreamlike

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If Wild Strawberries hit the spot, these will too

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Tokyo Story
1953 ยท dir. Yasujirล Ozu
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 8.1drama

The same preoccupation in both: dreams

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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The Greatest Showman
2017 ยท dir. Michael Gracey
๐Ÿ… 56%โ˜… 7.5drama

Both built around adultery

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 ยท dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
๐Ÿ… 91%โ˜… 8.2drama

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: 50 years apart, and the 2000s show

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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Minari
2021 ยท dir. Lee Isaac Chung
๐Ÿ… 98%โ˜… 7.4drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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Finding Neverland
2004 ยท dir. Marc Forster
๐Ÿ… 83%โ˜… 7.6drama ยท fantasy

Faith is the engine of both

The difference: Leans fantasy where Wild Strawberries does not

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boysโ€”who soon become an important part of Barrieโ€™s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

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12 Angry Men
1957 ยท dir. Sidney Lumet
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 9drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Wild Strawberries

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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Umberto D.
1952 ยท dir. Vittorio De Sica
๐Ÿ… 98%โ˜… 8.1drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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Sansho the Bailiff
1954 ยท dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 8.4drama

The same drama instincts

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 ยท dir. Yasujirล Ozu
๐Ÿ… 95%โ˜… 8drama

Both are drama through and through

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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Bicycle Thieves
1948 ยท dir. Vittorio De Sica
๐Ÿ… 99%โ˜… 8.2drama

Drama approached the same way

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycleโ€”essential to his workโ€”gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

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Late Spring
1949 ยท dir. Yasujirล Ozu
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 8.2drama

Both are drama through and through

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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Citizen Kane
1941 ยท dir. Orson Welles
๐Ÿ… 99%โ˜… 8.2mystery ยท drama

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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