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Movies that feel like Hostiles (2017)

If you loved Hostiles, the closest films we have are Black Mass (2015), I'm Still Here (2024) and Jackie (2016). All three share Hostiles' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Scott Coopercontemplativegrittyepicmelancholy
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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%6.8drama · crime · history

Scott Cooper working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the melancholy Hostiles is built on

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

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I'm Still Here
2024 · dir. Walter Salles
8.2drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: grief

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%6.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: widow

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%7.5crime · history · drama

Common ground in both: native american and murder

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Hostiles does

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

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True Grit
2010 · dir. Ethan Coen
🍅 95%7.6drama · adventure · western

Both land stillness and grit at once

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

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Marie Antoinette
2006 · dir. Sofia Coppola
🍅 58%6.5drama · history

Epic where it counts, melancholy underneath

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

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The Power of the Dog
2021 · dir. Jane Campion
🍅 94%6.8drama · western

One thread runs through both: montana

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

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21 Grams
2003 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 80%7.6drama · crime · thriller

Common ground: new mexico

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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Just Mercy
2019 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 85%7.6drama · crime · history

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%6.6drama · crime · history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

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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Richard Jewell
2019 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 77%7.5drama · history · crime

Gritty history in both cases

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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The Rider
2018 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 97%7.4drama · western

One thread runs through both: native american reservation

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

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