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Movies that feel likeBombshell (2019)

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.

If you loved Bombshell, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), Richard Jewell (2019) and Beautiful Boy (2018). All three share Bombshell'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★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jay Roachcontemplative
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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
★ 7.3dramaNetflix

One thread runs through 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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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Beautiful Boy
2018 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: biography

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.

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

Common ground: a true story

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

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Joy
2015 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 61%★ 6.6dramaStarz

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

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Queen of Hearts
2019 · dir. May el-Toukhy
🍅 97%★ 7drama

Drama approached the same way

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

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It's Only the End of the World
2016 · dir. Xavier Dolan
🍅 44%★ 6.8dramaRent or buy

Drama in the same key

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

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

Both play drama straight

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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Parallel Mothers
2021 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%★ 7.1dramaStarz

Both working the same drama territory

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

Drama of the same temperament

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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