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Movies that feel likeJobs (2013)

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

If you loved Jobs, the closest films we have are Steve Jobs (2015), Borg vs McEnroe (2017) and Milk (2008). All three share Jobs' 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 Girl with the Needle (2024).

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joshua Michael Sterncontemplativeepic
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Steve Jobs
2015 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · history

Common ground in both: computer and biography

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

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Borg vs McEnroe
2017 · dir. Janus Metz
🍅 84%★ 6.9drama · historyNetflixParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.

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Milk
2008 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 93%★ 7.5history · drama

Common ground: biography

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%★ 6.6drama · historyPrime Video

One thread runs through both: a true story

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

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

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Jobs 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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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · dir. Giulio Ricciarelli
🍅 83%★ 7.3drama · history

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

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The Lost City of Z
2017 · dir. James Gray
🍅 87%★ 6.6adventure · drama · historyPrime Video

Epic history in both cases

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

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The Post
2017 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 88%★ 7.2drama · historyMax

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

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The Founder
2016 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 80%★ 7.2drama · historyNetflix

Epic history, and it commits to that

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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Air
2023 · dir. Ben Affleck
🍅 93%★ 7.4drama · historyPrime Video

Drama of the same temperament

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · historyRent or buy

The same history instincts

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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Lincoln
2012 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 90%★ 7.3history · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

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