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Movies that feel like Yi Yi (2000)

If you loved Yi Yi, the closest films we have are After the Wedding (2006), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) and The Sea Inside (2004). All three share Yi Yi's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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After the Wedding
2006 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 87%7.7drama

Common ground in both: daughter and wedding

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 · dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
🍅 71%8.2drama

Common ground: family

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%8drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · dir. Edward Yang
🍅 100%8.2crime · drama · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Edward Yang

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Yi Yi does

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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Loveless
2017 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 95%7.6drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Floating Weeds
1959 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 96%7.9drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

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

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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Black Narcissus
1947 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%7.7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

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From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 · dir. Goro Miyazaki
🍅 87%7.4animation · drama

A streak of romance through both

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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Head-On
2004 · dir. Fatih Akin
7.9drama · romance

One thread runs through both: family

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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Rocky Balboa
2006 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 78%7.1drama

The same drama instincts

When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history!

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East of Eden
1955 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 86%7.8drama

Both know what they want from drama

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

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Saturday Night Fever
1977 · dir. John Badham
🍅 82%6.8drama

Drama in the same key

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

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