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Movies that feel likeHostiles (2017)

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

If you loved Hostiles, the closest films we have are True Grit (2010), I'm Still Here (2024) and Black Mass (2015). All three share Hostiles' contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Look of Silence (2014).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Scott Coopercontemplativegrittyepicmelancholy
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True Grit
2010 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · adventure · westernParamount+

Both land stillness and grit at once

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

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I'm Still Here
2024 · dir. Walter Salles
★ 8.1drama · historyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Trades the grit of Hostiles for an angle of its own

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%★ 6.8drama · crime · history

Scott Cooper working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Hostiles does

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

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Short Term 12
2013 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 98%★ 7.9dramaPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

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The Look of Silence
2014 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%★ 8.2history · documentary

Both lean on scale more than on history

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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🍅 94%★ 8.5documentary · crimePrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.

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Lilya 4-ever
2002 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 84%★ 7.8drama · crime

Contemplative western in both cases

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

One thread runs through both: massacre

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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The Celebration
1998 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 91%★ 8drama

Adventure built on grit, twice over

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%★ 6.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: widow

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · dir. Lynne Ramsay
🍅 89%★ 6.7crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: murder

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

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Hell or High Water
2016 · dir. David Mackenzie
🍅 97%★ 7.6western · crime · dramaMax

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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