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Movies that feel likeWild (2014)

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rams (2015).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Marc Valléecontemplative
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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
★ 7.3dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: 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 · dir. Felix van Groeningen
🍅 67%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: 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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Richard Jewell
2019 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 77%★ 7.5drama

One thread runs through 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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Concussion
2015 · dir. Peter Landesman
🍅 58%★ 7.1dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Big Eyes
2014 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 72%★ 6.9dramaStarz

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Parallel Mothers
2021 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%★ 7.1dramaStarz

Common ground: memory

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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

Both are drama through and through

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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The Butler
2013 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%★ 7.2drama

Drama approached the same way

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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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%★ 7.2drama

Drama in the same key

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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Ida
2013 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 95%★ 7.4dramaPrime Video

Both know what they want from drama

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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