Movies like Cradle Will Rock
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Cradle Will Rock (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Style:
talky, entertaining, intellectual, factual, serious, disturbing, realistic, clever, sexy, light ...
Plot:
artist, art, politics, depression, capitalism, greed, world politics, congress, justice, manipulation, adaptation, injustice, racism, rich and poor, society, actor's life, celebrity culture, power relations, suspense, government, u.s. congress, ventriloquist, gay, nude, catastrophe ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out talky, realistic, interesting and thought provoking films with plots about mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, greed, brutality, runaway and suprisingly clever mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like Cradle Will Rock: Bob Roberts (1992), The Front (1976), September 11 (2002), Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Ragtime (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
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Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
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11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
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male nudity, friendship, redemption, violence, catholicism, morality, mentor, revenge, relationships, justice, multiple storylines, secrets ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
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A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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clever, sexy, talky, melancholic, intense ...
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kids
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
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talky, political, intense, realistic, captivating ...
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girls' night
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politics, friendship, political corruption, betrayal, manipulation, legal action, college, corruption, society, political intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
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Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Story:
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