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Movies that feel likeYou Can Count on Me (2000)

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

If you loved You Can Count on Me, the closest films we have are Summer Hours (2008), Brainstorm (2001) and Ulee's Gold (1997). All three share You Can Count on Me's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Treeless Mountain (2009).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kenneth Lonergancontemplative
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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: brothers and sisters

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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Brainstorm
2001 · dir. Laís Bodanzky
★ 7.7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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Ulee's Gold
1997 · dir. Victor Nuñez
🍅 94%★ 7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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.

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The Whales of August
1987 · dir. Lindsay Anderson
🍅 64%★ 7.1drama

One thread runs through both: brothers and sisters

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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Through the Olive Trees
1994 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%★ 7.2drama

Both working the same drama territory

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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Main Hoon Na
2004 · dir. Farah Khan
★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Drama of the same temperament

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

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The Son's Room
2001 · dir. Nanni Moretti
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama

Both play drama straight

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%★ 7drama

Both are drama through and through

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Chak De! India
2007 · dir. Shimit Amin
🍅 90%★ 8.1dramaNetflix

Drama in the same key

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%★ 7.6dramaRent or buy

The same drama instincts

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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Blind Chance
1987 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 73%★ 7.7drama

Drama approached the same way

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

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