More films like this?

Crazy Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPCu-TsSXQ - greatest film of our time

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The Apostle
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Sterile Cuckoo
Stealing Beauty







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That is a very big and varied list of films. I have not seen or even heard of all of them and there are definitely some that I would agree have a similar feel to them. That said its difficult to understand some of the choices Testament and Quiet Earth are both post apocalyptic films and while they do have a quiet reflective feel I am not sure it is in the same sense as Tender Mercies. The Secret Garden in particular being a children’s classic and although this is a decent version seems out of place here, in my opinion. Therefore I find it difficult to make any suggestions that I would say are like all these films. However, as someone has said Crazy Heart has a very similar storyline to Tender Mercies.

To keep the modern western/cowboy theme you could have The Electric Horseman (1979) – Aging alcoholic cowboy theme, Urban Cowboy (1980), Honeysuckle Rose (1980) – which also has the aging country music star aspect or my favourite A Coalminer’s Daughter (1980). There is also The Thing Called Love (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and The Hi-Lo Country (1998). You mentioned the Straight Story which for me was one of the best feel good movies ever and I would suggest The World’s Fastest Indian (2005) which is a road movie like the Straight Story and has a similar feel to it.

If you want films dealing with the urban or rural working man/woman as in The Deer Hunter or Silkwood there are an awful lot (and I could include Urban Cowboy, Coalminer’s Daughter and Hi-Low Country again in this I suppose) but here are a few others- Never Give an Inch (1970) (which is also called Sometimes a Great Notion like the book); Blue Collar (1978); B*stard Out of Carolina (1996); Mystic River (2003); Undertow (2004); North Country (2005) and Winter’s Bone (2010). I am not saying that these films are all similar but they do have that one thing on common that they deal with “the common man”. Maybe due to this they are often full of conflict, drunkenness and violence.

Anyway thanks for the list I will look through it properly and hopefully find some decent films that I have so far never discovered.

You could try "Fat City", "Five Easy Pieces", "The King of Marvin Gardens", "The Passenger", "Zabriskie Point", and if you like "Days of Heaven" there's no reason not to include "Badlands" too. "My Own Private Idaho" or "Gerry" by Gus Van Sant might work, and "The Brown Bunny" by Vincent Gallo. All of Wim Wenders films, probably. Werner Herzog's "Stroszek", Emir Kusturica's "Arizona Dream". And if you want the same sort of thing set to music, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

Best of all though may be "Two Lane Blacktop".

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Five Easy Pieces
Wise Blood
Ordinary People
Out of the Blue (1980)
Bronco Billy
Lone Star
The Straight Story
The Burning Plain
Frozen River

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