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Movies that feel likeLogan (2017)

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

If you loved Logan, the closest films we have are Walk the Line (2005), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and Short Term 12 (2013). All three share Logan's melancholy and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is To Live (1994).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Β· The Wolverine (2013)

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Walk the Line
2005 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8drama Β· music Β· romanceMax

James Mangold directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less bleak than Logan does

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

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War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 Β· dir. Matt Reeves
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4drama Β· science fiction Β· warMax

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

The difference: Easier on the tenderness than Logan

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

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Short Term 12
2013 Β· dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9dramaPrime Video

Melancholy and contemplative in the same breath

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

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Batman Begins
2005 Β· dir. Christopher Nolan
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8.2drama Β· crime Β· actionMax

One thread runs through both: superhero

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Logan does

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

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The Next Three Days
2010 Β· dir. Paul Haggis
πŸ… 50%β˜… 7.3romance Β· drama Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both land tenderness and grit at once

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

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Girl, Interrupted
1999 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 53%β˜… 7.3drama

The same hand behind both of them: James Mangold

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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The Last Samurai
2003 Β· dir. Edward Zwick
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.8drama Β· action Β· warMax

Bleak action, and it commits to that

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

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The Celebration
1998 Β· dir. Thomas Vinterberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8drama

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

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To Live
1994 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8.3drama Β· romance Β· war

Both lean on bleakness more than on science fiction

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

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Gone with the Wind
1939 Β· dir. Victor Fleming
πŸ… 90%β˜… 8.2drama Β· war Β· romanceMax

Tender drama in both cases

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

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Doctor Zhivago
1965 Β· dir. David Lean
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance Β· war

Action built on stillness, twice over

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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Lilya 4-ever
2002 Β· dir. Lukas Moodysson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.8drama Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on science fiction

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life β€” and a journey that will change everything.

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