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Movies that feel like Concussion (2015)

If you loved Concussion, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), Big Eyes (2014) and Joy (2015). All three share Concussion's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Landesmancontemplative
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On My Skin
2018 · dir. Alessio Cremonini
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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Big Eyes
2014 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 71%7drama

Common ground: a true story

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%6.6drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: biography

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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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
6.5drama

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

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 · dir. Lee Daniels
🍅 72%7.2drama

Both lean on stillness more than on 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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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: doctor

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%8drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Both working the same drama territory

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

Both know what they want from drama

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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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Drama in the same key

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011 · dir. Marcus Baldini
6.2drama

Drama of the same temperament

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

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