Movies like Widows
If Widows's mix of calm, candid and absurd stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Widows's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Marie Antoinette
2006 · Directed by Sofia Coppola · 123 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: candid, admiring, adoring
A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
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Ali
2001 · Directed by Michael Mann · 157 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: candid, admiring, adoring
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public…
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Beast
2018 · Directed by Michael Pearce · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, adoring, ambiguous · From the same decade (2010s)
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Directed by Chris Columbus · 152 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: calm, admiring, adoring
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…
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Ratatouille
2007 · Directed by Brad Bird · 111 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, adoring, enthusiastic
In one of Paris's finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family's wishes and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious…
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 155 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: adoring, amused
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, amused
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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Shrek
2001 · Directed by Andrew Adamson · 90 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, appreciative
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely…
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Directed by Chris Columbus · 161 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, amused
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets…
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The Hangover
2009 · Directed by Todd Phillips · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: absurd, amused
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom.
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I Am Legend
2007 · Directed by Francis Lawrence · 101 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: admiring, amused
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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Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Directed by Spike Lee · 129 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: admiring
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke.