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Movies that feel likeOn My Skin (2018)

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.

If you loved On My Skin, the closest films we have are Richard Jewell (2019), Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) and Beautiful Boy (2018). All three share On My Skin'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).

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

The same preoccupation in both: biography

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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Ip Man: The Final Fight
2013 · dir. Herman Yau
🍅 67%★ 6.1action · dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: biography

The difference: Sits closer to action than On My Skin does

Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.

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Beautiful Boy
2018 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Il Divo
2008 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 92%★ 7.2drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Both know what they want from drama

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

Both are drama through and through

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

The same drama instincts

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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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
★ 7.3drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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Erin Brockovich
2000 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 87%★ 7.5drama

Drama of the same temperament

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

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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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