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Movies that feel likeBeautiful Boy (2018)

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

If you loved Beautiful Boy, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), Richard Jewell (2019) and Wild (2014). All three share Beautiful Boy's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Clergy (2018).

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Felix van Groeningencontemplative
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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
★ 7.3dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

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Richard Jewell
2019 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 77%★ 7.5drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

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Wild
2014 · dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: biography

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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Bombshell
2019 · dir. Jay Roach
🍅 67%★ 6.8dramaPrime Video

Common ground: a true story

Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.

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Concussion
2015 · dir. Peter Landesman
🍅 58%★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

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Fences
2016 · dir. Denzel Washington
🍅 92%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: fathers and sons

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

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Big Eyes
2014 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 72%★ 6.9dramaStarz

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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The Butler
2013 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%★ 7.2drama

Both are drama through and through

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

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Blue Jasmine
2013 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 90%★ 7.3drama

Both know what they want from drama

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

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Pain and Glory
2019 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%★ 7.5drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama

Both working the same drama territory

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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