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Movies that feel like Richard Jewell (2019)

If you loved Richard Jewell, the closest films we have are J. Edgar (2011), House of Gucci (2021) and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019). All three share Richard Jewell's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Clint Eastwoodcontemplativeepicgritty

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J. Edgar
2011 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 44%6.5drama · crime · history

The same hand behind both of them: Clint Eastwood

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

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

Common ground in both: biography and a true story

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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🍅 54%6.7drama · crime

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Richard Jewell

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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

Common ground: a true story

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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Invictus
2009 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 76%7.3drama · history

Both are Clint Eastwood's work, and they rhyme

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

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Sully
2016 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 85%7.4drama · history

Both land stillness and scale at once

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

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

Gritty drama in both cases

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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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%6.8drama · crime · history

History built on stillness, twice over

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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Jobs
2013 · dir. Joshua Michael Stern
🍅 27%6drama · history

Epic crime, and it commits to that

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

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Loving Pablo
2017 · dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
🍅 33%6.4crime · drama

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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Serpico
1973 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 93%7.7crime · drama · history

Both lean on stillness more than on history

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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Changeling
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 61%7.7crime · drama · mystery

Both lean on grit more than on crime

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Richard Jewell does

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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