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Movies that feel likeThe Walk (2015)

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

If you loved The Walk, the closest films we have are Milk (2008), The Post (2017) and Steve Jobs (2015). All three share The Walk's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Zemeckisepiccontemplative
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Milk
2008 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 93%★ 7.5history · drama

The same two preoccupations: biography, and a true story

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

Common ground: biography

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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Steve Jobs
2015 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

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+

Both land scale and stillness at once

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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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · dir. Giulio Ricciarelli
🍅 83%★ 7.3drama · history

Epic history in both cases

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Jobs
2013 · dir. Joshua Michael Stern
🍅 27%★ 6drama · historyPrime VideoStarz

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

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

Both lean on stillness more than on history

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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The Two Popes
2019 · dir. Fernando Meirelles
🍅 89%★ 7.6drama · historyNetflix

The same history instincts

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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Everest
2015 · dir. Baltasar Kormákur
🍅 73%★ 7.1adventure · drama · historyRent or buy

Both know what they want from adventure

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

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Darkest Hour
2017 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 84%★ 7.4drama · historyRent or buy

Both play drama straight

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

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