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Movies that feel likeFlight (2012)

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

If you loved Flight, the closest films we have are The Aviator (2004), Blue Jasmine (2013) and Shame (2011). All three share Flight's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rams (2015).

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Zemeckiscontemplative
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The Aviator
2004 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 86%★ 7.5dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: pilot

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Shame
2011 · dir. Steve McQueen
🍅 79%★ 7.2drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both are drama through and through

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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The Book Thief
2013 · dir. Brian Percival
🍅 50%★ 7.5drama

Drama of the same temperament

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

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The Ides of March
2011 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama

Drama approached the same way

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

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The Walk
2015 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 83%★ 7.3history · drama · adventure

Both are Robert Zemeckis's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into history than Flight does

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

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

Drama in the same key

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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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%★ 7.2drama

Both working the same drama territory

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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

The same drama instincts

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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