Movies like Land of the Blind
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Land of the Blind (2006)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, disturbing, political, captivating, apocalyptic, inspirational, philosophical, black comedy ...
Plot:
politics, prisoner, terrorism, rebelliousness, against the odds, danger, haunted by the past, state affairs, injustice, political corruption, revolution, dictatorship, protest, post apocalypse, distopia, psychology, nazi, psychopath, politician, resistance, inspiration, government, tyranny, social criticism, reform ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Land of the Blind
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and political films with plots about politics, state affairs, husband wife relationship, death, murder, conspiracy and terrorism mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Land of the Blind: A Dry White Season (1989), The Mauritanian (2021), Punishment Park (1971), The Dancer Upstairs (2002), The Day of the Locust (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style:
talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, lawyer, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, children, courtroom, freedom, chess, social commentary ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place:
south africa, africa, poland, canada, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, prisoner, american politics, brutality, american imperialism, prison, torture, terrorist, defense attorney ...
Time:
year 1988, year 2001, year 2003, year 2005, year 2002 ...
Place:
north africa, jordan, germany, hamburg germany, baltimore ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in ...
Style:
mockumentary, philosophical, political, cerebral, realistic ...
Plot:
found footage, politics, desert, hippie, anarchist, military, distopia, murder, anti war, counterculture, dystopian future, police brutality ...
Time:
year 1971, distant future, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., california, glendale california, indochina, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, political, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
politics, dictator, police detective, corruption, character study, danger, fighting crime, political unrest, teacher, dancing, dictatorship, assassination ...
Time:
year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place:
peru, latin america, south america, spain, israel
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, cynical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, female nudity, movie business, filmmaking, great depression, art, satire, showbiz, accountant, politics, actor, surrealism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style:
sexy, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, terrorist, conspiracy, islamic terrorism, war on terror, kidnapping, spy, espionage, islam, cia, intelligence ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious ...
Style:
serious, bleak, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
disappearance, politics, uncover truth, danger, political unrest, compassion, father daughter relationship, military dictatorship, marriage proposal, guard dog, revolution, sex crime ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, year 1976
Place:
latin america, buenos aires argentina, argentina, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
46%
511
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, terrorism, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, murder, terrorist, propaganda ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
46%
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35K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, political, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
war criminal, politics, world war two, investigation, murder, justice, nazi, espionage, on the run, law enforcement, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 90s
Place:
france, vichy, europe, paris france, provence ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot:
coup d'etat, conspiracy, terrorism, political corruption, state affairs, betrayal, government agency, undercover, manhunt, special agent, revolution, danger ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Serbia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with ...
Style:
political, psychological, breathtaking, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
politics, shakespeare, vengeance, tragedy, manipulation, betrayal, state affairs, rise and fall, leadership, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, tragic hero ...
Place:
rome italy, former yugoslavia, england, seattle
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style:
political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot:
cold war, conspiracy, politics, u.s. air force, white house, terrorism, president, coup d'etat, u.s. president, betrayal, mistress, espionage ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, future, 70s
Place:
austin texas, russia, texas, spain, america ...
Similarity:
44%
8K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is ...
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, hilarious, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, mental health, courtroom, lawyer, court, murder, flashback, sex worker, self defense, prostitution, child abuse, insanity ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style:
political thriller, political, neo noir, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear threat, vietnam war, cold war, president, u.s. president, danger, terrorism, conspiracy, nuclear missile, military, u.s. military, u.s. air force ...
Place:
montana, usa, vietnam, asia
Similarity:
44%
138K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a ...
Style:
political thriller, cerebral, political, intense, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, corruption, cia, capitalism, spy, oil, globalization, conspiracy, middle east conflict, politics, terrorist ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, lebanon, usa, israel ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, disturbing, touching, informative ...
Plot:
fighting the system, deportation, courtroom drama, rebellion, injustice, legal, hopes, hotshot lawyer, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, politics ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, bangladesh, new york, pakistan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Style:
political, political thriller, cynical, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot:
politics, communism, interrogation, torture, spy, dictator, anti communist, dictatorship, solitary, cold war, trial, communist ...
Time:
year 1968, 1950s, year 1970, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, france, czech republic, central europe, prague ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, terrorist, politics, revolution, murder, dictator, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, state affairs, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2003, year 1978
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, minimal cast, art house ...
Plot:
police station, twenty something, abduction, moving, bdsm, kidnapped, psychological manipulation, extreme, sex crime, monster, victim, human experiment ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, fbi agent, accountant, danger, dishonesty, special agent, politics, obsession, love and romance, liberal, racial slur, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to ...
Style:
psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, betrayal, murder mystery, politics, police inspector, secret agent, sabotage, conspiracy, undercover, state affairs, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1880s, 18th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland, russia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jake Cassevetes is a world renowned shooter just back from being embedded during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As a well-paid stringer for the networks, Jake does not buy into the currently vogue, left-wing conspiracy theory of a corporate-controlled ...
Style:
disturbing, clever, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
anarchist, conspiracy, politics, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, injustice, political unrest, anarchism, anarchy ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, new york, usa, middle east ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, danger, society, vengeance, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, manipulation, nightmare, senator, cold war era, communism, korean war, election ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1962, 50s, year 1952
Place:
new york, north korea, china, washington d.c., korea ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, ...
Style:
controversial, mockumentary, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, assassination, sniper, brutality, investigation, conspiracy, president, culture clash, danger, state affairs, political conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2006, near future, september 11 2001, 70s ...
Place:
iraq, chicago, middle east, syria, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
whistleblower, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, military, introspection, soldier, state affairs, head of state, political conspiracy, political corruption, vietnam war ...
Place:
new york, asia, usa, vietnam
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
medical, mental illness, ambulance, hospital, redemption, paramedic, insomnia, hallucination, character study, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Style:
psychological, intense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
redemption, vengeance, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, trouble, terrorism, revenge ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, year 1975, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, australia, london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.
Style:
political, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot:
politics, political repression, government, political corruption, revolution, siblings relations, tragic love, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, conspiracy, professor ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 50s
Place:
caribbean, latin america, dominican republic
Similarity:
41%
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