Movies like Ordinary Angels
Ordinary Angels (2024) is a drama movie directed by Jon Gunn. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
★ 8.3 · 5,107 votes · Drama, Family, Fantasy
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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2. Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)
★ 7.9 · 460 votes · Drama, Adventure
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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3. Mad Max 2 (1981)
★ 7.4 · 4,346 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
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4. The Shining (1980)
★ 8.2 · 19,520 votes · Horror, Thriller
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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5. Breakthrough (2019)
★ 7.7 · 1,160 votes · Drama
Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.
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6. Sinners (2025)
★ 7.5 · 5,342 votes · Horror, Action, Thriller
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
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7. Backrooms (2026)
★ 7.0 · 3,737 votes · Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
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8. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
★ 8.1 · 11,261 votes · Crime, Drama
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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9. American History X (1998)
★ 8.3 · 13,020 votes · Drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
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10. Titanic (1997)
★ 7.9 · 27,901 votes · Drama, Romance
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
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11. Aladdin (2019)
★ 7.1 · 10,855 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
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12. Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)
★ 8.4 · 382 votes · Drama, Family
Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
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13. The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5 · 2,309 votes · Drama, Family
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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14. Heaven Is for Real (2014)
★ 6.8 · 913 votes · Drama
After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
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15. Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2 · 1,079 votes · Drama
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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16. Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4 · 554 votes · Drama
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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17. Black or White (2015)
★ 6.8 · 368 votes · Drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
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