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Movies that feel like Wild (2014)

If you loved Wild, the closest films we have are Still Alice (2014), The Father (2020) and Jackie (2016). All three share Wild's contemplative and melancholy 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 Metrograph and others, checked against today's data.

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Marc Valléecontemplativemelancholycerebral

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Still Alice
2014 · dir. Wash Westmoreland
🍅 85%7.5drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

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The Father
2020 · dir. Florian Zeller
🍅 98%8.2drama

Cerebral drama in both cases

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%6.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: None of the ideas Wild is built on

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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Central Station
1998 · dir. Walter Salles
🍅 94%8drama

Both are built on the same subject: wilderness

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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Demolition
2016 · dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
🍅 53%7comedy · drama

Jean-Marc Vallée directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%7.3drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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The Vow
2012 · dir. Michael Sucsy
🍅 30%6.8drama · romance

One thread runs through both: a true story

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Wild does

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

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Parallel Mothers
2021 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%7.1drama

Common ground: memory

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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The Danish Girl
2015 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 66%7.1drama

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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Manchester by the Sea
2016 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 96%7.8drama

The shared currency is stillness

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

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Forgotten Love
2023 · dir. Michał Gazda
7.5drama · romance

Both run cerebral where it counts

A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

A streak of melancholy through both

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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