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Movies that feel like Erin Brockovich (2000)

If you loved Erin Brockovich, the closest films we have are On My Skin (2018), You Can Count on Me (2000) and The Aviator (2004). All three share Erin Brockovich's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven Soderberghcontemplative

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

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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You Can Count on Me
2000 Β· dir. Kenneth Lonergan
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.5drama

Common ground: single mother

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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The Aviator
2004 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.5drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Big Eyes
2014 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

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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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011 Β· dir. Marcus Baldini
β˜… 6.2drama

The same preoccupation in both: a woman at the center

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

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Our Little Sister
2015 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6drama

Common ground: a woman at the center

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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The Son's Room
2001 Β· dir. Nanni Moretti
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.3drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Brainstorm
2001 Β· dir. LaΓ­s Bodanzky
β˜… 7.7drama

Both working the same drama territory

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

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Carandiru
2003 Β· dir. HΓ©ctor Babenco
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.6drama

Drama of the same temperament

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

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