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Movies that feel like Remember the Titans (2000)

If you loved Remember the Titans, the closest films we have are Rocky V (1990), In a Better World (2010) and Wendy and Lucy (2008). All three share Remember the Titans' contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

🍅 72% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Boaz Yakincontemplativewarm
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Rocky V
1990 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 31%5.4drama

Two things both keep coming back to: friendship and sports

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%7.6drama

Common ground: friendship

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%7.1drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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Girl, Interrupted
1999 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 53%7.3drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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La Haine
1995 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
🍅 96%8.1drama

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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The Illusionist
2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
🍅 90%7.4animation · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Remember the Titans does

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

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Midnight Cowboy
1969 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 89%7.8drama

Both work the same warmth

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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Pleasure
2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg
🍅 88%6.3drama

Both are drama through and through

19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

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Gran Torino
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 81%8.1drama

Drama approached the same way

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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Good Will Hunting
1997 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 97%8.4drama

Both working the same drama territory

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%7.4drama · crime

Both know what they want from drama

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · dir. Miloš Forman
🍅 92%8.6drama

The same drama instincts

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

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