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Movies that feel like On My Skin (2018)

If you loved On My Skin, the closest films we have are Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013), Il Divo (2008) and Big Eyes (2014). All three share On My Skin'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, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alessio Cremoninicontemplative
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Ip Man: The Final Fight
2013 · dir. Herman Yau
🍅 67%6.1action · drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

The difference: Sits closer to action than On My Skin does

Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.

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

The same preoccupation in both: biography

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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Big Eyes
2014 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 71%7drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Joy
2015 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 61%6.6drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Lion
2016 · dir. Garth Davis
🍅 84%8drama

Both play drama straight

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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The Fighter
2010 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 91%7.8drama

Both working the same drama territory

Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

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The Aviator
2004 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 86%7.5drama

The same drama instincts

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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The Social Network
2010 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 96%7.8drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

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Clergy
2018 · dir. Wojtek Smarzowski
7.3drama

Drama in the same key

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

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Aquarius
2016 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 97%7.4drama

Both know what they want from drama

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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Pain and Glory
2019 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%7.5drama

Drama of the same temperament

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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