Movies like Broken Clouds
If Broken Clouds's mix of oxygen, hope and redemption stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Broken Clouds's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Man from Earth
2007 · Directed by Richard Schenkman · 87 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: survival, memory · Also science fiction and drama
A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past.
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I Am Legend
2007 · Directed by Francis Lawrence · 101 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: end of the world, survival · Also drama and science fiction
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the…
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: hope, redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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The Martian
2015 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 141 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: survival · Also science fiction and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet.
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The Lion King
1994 · Directed by Roger Allers · 89 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: redemption, nature
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself.
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The Revenant
2015 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: survival, nature · From the same decade (2010s)
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.
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Upstream Color
2013 · Directed by Shane Carruth · 96 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: hope · Also drama and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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9
2009 · Directed by Shane Acker · 79 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: hope
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…