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Movies that feel likeRichard Jewell (2019)

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.

If you loved Richard Jewell, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), Beautiful Boy (2018) and Bombshell (2019). All three share Richard Jewell's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Il Divo (2008).

πŸ… 77% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Clint Eastwoodcontemplative
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If Richard Jewell hit the spot, these will too

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On My Skin
2018 Β· dir. Alessio Cremonini
β˜… 7.3dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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Beautiful Boy
2018 Β· dir. Felix van Groeningen
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.4dramaPrime Video

Common ground: a true story

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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Bombshell
2019 Β· dir. Jay Roach
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.8dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: biography

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 Β· dir. Jean-Marc VallΓ©e
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

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 Β· dir. Peter Landesman
πŸ… 58%β˜… 7.1dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on 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 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 72%β˜… 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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Joy
2015 Β· dir. David O. Russell
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.6dramaStarz

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Erin Brockovich
2000 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.5drama

Drama in the same key

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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Lion
2016 Β· dir. Garth Davis
πŸ… 84%β˜… 8dramaNetflix

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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The Butler
2013 Β· dir. Lee Daniels
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.2drama

Both know what they want from drama

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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Il Divo
2008 Β· dir. Paolo Sorrentino
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2drama

Drama of the same temperament

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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Pain and Glory
2019 Β· dir. Pedro AlmodΓ³var
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5drama

Both play drama straight

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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