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Movies that feel like Big Eyes (2014)

If you loved Big Eyes, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), Ida (2013) and Joy (2015). All three share Big Eyes' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

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

One thread runs through 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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Ida
2013 Β· dir. PaweΕ‚ Pawlikowski
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4drama

Common ground: 1960s

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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Joy
2015 Β· dir. David O. Russell
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.6drama

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

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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To the Bone
2017 Β· dir. Marti Noxon
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.7drama

Both are built on the same subject: artist

A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

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

The same preoccupation in both: biography

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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Blue Jasmine
2013 Β· dir. Woody Allen
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: husband wife relationship

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

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3096 Days
2013 Β· dir. Sherry Hormann
β˜… 6.5drama

Another one that scratches it

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Fidelity
2019 Β· dir. Nigina Sayfullaeva
β˜… 5.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: husband wife relationship

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

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Silenced
2011 Β· dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed even better

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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

The same drama instincts

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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