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Alleged (2010)
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles Anderson, a talented young reporter, feels trapped working for his deceased father's weekly newspaper and living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN) in steep decline. Seeing the "Monkey Trial" as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles manages to insert himself into the middle of the "Trial of the Century." Once in the midst of this staged event, however, he is torn between his love for the more principled Rose, his fiancée, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make as the eager protégé of H.L. Mencken, America's most colorful and influential columnist.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere
Plot:
journalism, legal, fighting the system, rivalry, ambition, moral dilemma, idealism, rebellion, injustice, couples, society, courtroom drama, against the odds, hopes, dedicated lawyer, price of justice, righting the wronged, dishonesty, court, lawyer, courtroom, life is a bitch, media, small town, small town life ...
Place:
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and sincere films with plots about society, legal, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, dishonesty, injustice and lawyer mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Alleged: Inherit the Wind (1999), Inherit the Wind (1988), Heavens Fall (2006), Separate But Equal (1991), The Attorney (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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gothic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
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religion versus science, courtroom drama, lawyer, religion, court, small town, courtroom, hopes, dishonesty, idealism, legal action, journalism ...
Time:
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Place:
america, usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, religion, evolution, bigotry, social relations, religions or cults, idealism, society, dedicated lawyer, legal ...
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Place:
usa, tennessee
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
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serious, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, emotional ...
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courtroom, false accusation, interracial relations, discrimination, dishonesty, injustice, racism, jury, against the odds, dedicated lawyer, legal action, human spirit ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
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A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the ...
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Plot:
legal, civil rights, racism, african american, court, lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, racial segregation, blaxploitation, interracial relations, righting the wronged ...
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50s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, rough
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, against the odds, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, lawyer, injustice, legal action, dedicated lawyer, righting the wronged ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, stylized
Plot:
friendship, interracial relations, society, justice, husband wife relationship, guilt, father son relationship, doctor, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love story, plantation ...
Time:
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84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
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Plot:
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83%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Drama, History
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Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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