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Movies that feel likeThelma & Louise (1991)

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

If you loved Thelma & Louise, the closest films we have are The Last Duel (2021), Dances with Wolves (1990) and House of Gucci (2021). All three share Thelma & Louise's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Where Is The Friend's House? (1987).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ridley Scottcontemplativegrittyepicwarm
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The Last Duel
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama · history · thrillerRent or buy

The same hand behind both of them: Ridley Scott

The difference: Sits closer to history than Thelma & Louise does

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

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Dances with Wolves
1990 · dir. Kevin Costner
🍅 87%★ 8adventure · drama · westernPrime Video

Contemplative and gritty in the same breath

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

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

Ridley Scott directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Where Is The Friend's House?
1987 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · adventure

The same mix in both: scale, then warmth

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Thelma & Louise does

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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American Gangster
2007 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 81%★ 7.8drama · crimeApple TV+Starz

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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All the Money in the World
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 79%★ 6.8crime · history · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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The Irishman
2019 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · historyNetflix

Drama built on warmth, twice over

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Spring Breakers
2013 · dir. Harmony Korine
🍅 67%★ 5.3drama · crimeMax

The same two preoccupations: robbery, and female friendship

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

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Dersu Uzala
1975 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 73%★ 8.2adventure · drama

Contemplative adventure, and it commits to that

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

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21
2008 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 36%★ 6.8drama · crime

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.

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Trainspotting
1996 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 93%★ 8.1drama · crime

Warm drama, and it commits to that

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

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