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Movies that feel likeThe Revenant (2015)

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

If you loved The Revenant, the closest films we have are Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Spotlight (2015) and Just Mercy (2019). All three share The Revenant's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Silenced (2011).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritugrittycontemplativeepic
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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5crime · history · dramaApple TV+

The American frontier as a crime scene, told at monumental scale

The difference: Methodical true-crime epic, no wilderness ordeal

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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Spotlight
2015 · dir. Tom McCarthy
🍅 97%★ 8.1drama · history

Same-year prestige about uncovering what powerful men buried

The difference: Newsroom procedural, quietly devastating

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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

Grinding perseverance against odds designed to break a man

The difference: A courtroom, not a wilderness — quiet outrage over raw survival

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

An ordinary man wronged by powers that owe him better

The difference: Media-circus drama — the wounds are reputational, not physical

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

A gritty true story of survival by ruthlessness

The difference: Boston crime procedural — cold and talky, no wilderness

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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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%★ 6.6drama · crime · historyPrime VideoHulu

Ambition and betrayal escalating to an unforgivable act

The difference: Glamour and camp — betrayal in boardrooms, not frozen rivers

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

An epic character study of an unforgiving, driven man

The difference: Decades of office politics — heavy makeup, no physical stakes

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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Gangs of New York
2002 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 72%★ 7.5drama · history · crimeParamount+Starz

Revenge nursed for years in a merciless American landscape

The difference: Urban tribal warfare, theatrical register

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · dir. John Huston
🍅 100%★ 8.2adventure · drama · western

The wilderness stripping men down to greed and grit

The difference: A 1948 classic — moral rot, minus the mud-and-blood realism

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

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Andrei Rublev
1966 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 96%★ 8drama · history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape

The difference: Leans harder into history than The Revenant does

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%★ 8dramaNetflix

Common ground: rape

The difference: Trades the scale of The Revenant for an angle of its own

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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Into the Wild
2007 · dir. Sean Penn
🍅 83%★ 8adventure · drama

The wilderness as crucible — beautiful, indifferent, lethal

The difference: Chosen solitude, no betrayal to avenge

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

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