Movies like Silencing Mary

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Silencing Mary (1998)
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Silencing Mary (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.
Plot: american football, college, reporter, campus, dancing, rape, party, journalism, loyalty, newspaper, drinking, drinking alcohol, undressing, dressing room, lifetime, locker room

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Most similar movies to Silencing Mary

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and independent film films with plots about college, party, campus, rape, drinking, love and college life mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres. Some movies like Silencing Mary: When He's Not a Stranger (1989), Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979), Coach of the Year (1980), Fraternity Row (1977), Class of '44 (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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When He's Not a Stranger (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself on Lyn. When she resists, Ron throws her on the bed ...
Plot: college, sexual assault, rape, social problems, college student, complaint, football player, hostility, social injustice, counselor, university, campus
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A newspaper editor decides to send his girlfriend, who is also a reporter on the paper, undercover to try out for the cheerleading team for the Dallas Cowboys in order to do an "insider's" story.
Plot: american football, cheerleading, cheerleader, gymnastics, reporter, journalism, diner, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, football player, female reporter, newspaper editor, undercover ...
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Coach of the Year (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Plot: american football, vietnam war, coach, vietnam veteran, juvenile detention, wheelchair
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Fraternity Row (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Director Thomas J. Tobin's 1977 drama about college freshmen subjected to fraternity hazing stars Gregory Harrison, Peter Fox, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan and Wendy Phillips.
Plot: fraternity, campus, college, sorority, mockery, college freshman, college campus, accidental death, initiation, mccarthyism, oar
Time: year 1954, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Class of '44 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and ...
Plot: coming of age, college, world war two, fraternity, campus, generation, autobiography, streetcar
Time: 1940s, year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Analog Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles, not quite the middle of nowhere, but not exactly a real city either. It's somewhere in between. A place where the youth work at Video Depot, go to community college, struggle ...
Style: independent film
Plot: punk rock, punk, party, teenage girl, teenage boy, drinking, blond boy, college, ethnic hatred, unrequited love, vandalism, prejudice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Liars' Club (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.
Style: independent film
Plot: american football, exploitation, cover up, rape, murder, loyalty, friendship, teenager, teenage boy, high school, accidental killing, intimidation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, college, society, journalism, fighting the system, investigation, rebellion, african american, discrimination, teacher, violent content, social relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: vermont, new england, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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She Cried No (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, crying
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, rape, campus, sex crime, teen social issues, abused woman, love, sexual abuse, school, womanizer, rape victim, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Red Light in the White House (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A reporter digs into the background of a young woman who is running for the U.S. Senate, and finds out a lot more than he bargained for.
Style: independent film
Plot: reporter, limousine, rape, cover up, conspiracy, blackmail, investigation, scandal, political candidate, intrigue, private detective
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A promising track star, 18 year old Jesse Brenner struggles with binge drinking during her freshman year of college.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, twisted
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, family relations, lifestyle, best friend, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children, college life, alcohol abuse, underage drinking, teen social issues, recovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Young Lovers (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Plot: love, virgin, mother daughter relationship, virginity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, doctor, marriage, beach, professor, party, sex ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Dying to Belong (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a girls friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.
Style: sad, mind bending, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: college, campus, sorority, love, troubled teen, fraternity, tasks, bail, humiliation, university, roommate, death ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Mirrors (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot: ballerina, ballet, career, marriage proposal, dancer, love, reporter, female protagonist, love triangle, dancing, muscleman, bare chested male ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Goat (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Style: disturbing, captivating, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, college, dormitory, college campus, bare breasts, bare chested male, sibling relationship, death of friend, sexism, false accusation, party, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Audience: date night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, love, bittersweet, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, dealing with death, love and romance, youth, young lovers, couples, campus ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Bear (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama.
Style: independent film
Plot: american football, bear, football, student athlete, husband wife relationship, college football, college, interracial relations, sport team, soccer coach, wooing, dressing room
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot: sex education, murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, american football, cheerleader, high school student, babies and infants, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The New Interns (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: erotic
Plot: business, medical, hospital, rape, trauma, lovers, married couple, dancing, police officer, man dressed as a woman, gang war, juvenile delinquent ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Heart of Dixie (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Style: independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fraternity, sorority, coming of age, interracial relations, racism, college, injustice, society, love and romance, journalism, hopes, youth ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Wishing Well (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Widower, Mark Jansen, owns and runs the local newspaper for the Midwest town he grew up in. As he struggles to make ends meet, his daughter takes his happiness into her hands by going down to the famous wishing well their little town is known for, ...
Style: serious, touching, feel good, sentimental, emotional
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, wish come true, journalism, introspection, newspaper, money problems, starting over, hopes, fish out of water, journalist, elderly, meteor shower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Quarterback Princess (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, female athlete, athlete, baseball, love and romance, student athlete, girlfriend, boyfriend, high school, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teammate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Reason to Believe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: rape, fraternity, nudity, college, friendship, female nudity, rape victim, wild party, feminism, youth, self discovery, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had happened to them to speak out.
Plot: abusive relationship, rape victim, reflection, rape, confrontation, courtroom, control, compassion, life, publicity, newspaper, victim
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Christmas 9 to 5 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jennifer is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meaning of Christmas. When she goes undercover in a department store as a 9 to 5 sales clerk from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, she finds her true calling ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: christmas, female reporter, investigative journalism, investigative reporter, christmas season, christmas spirit, investigation, journalist, journalism, female journalist, reporter, writers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Subwave (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last ...
Plot: statutory rape, abuse, rape, son, fire, regret, trial, family crisis, dormitory, bare chested male, swimming pool, mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mechanics of Love (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mattilynn Dupree is back in her home town for her sister’s wedding, re-evaluating her life after missing out on the promotion she always wanted. She runs into an old friend, Jake, in her Dad’s auto mechanic shop and is given a reason to stay. ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light
Plot: wedding, love and romance, father daughter relationship, family business, friendship between men, love, mechanic, vintage car, love story, couple relations, relationships, family relations ...
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33%
The Weather Inside (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: hotel, refugee camp, love, party, loyalty, fall in love, ambassador, love story, male female relationship, love affair, money, love interest ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Gramps Goes to College (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ty Bounds, a workaholic as a computer programmer for 35 years, has retired. No longer forced to work for a living, he seeks how he can spend his time serving God. Following the lead of the Holy Spirit, he returns to college to wage war against ...
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, creationism, college student, biology, christian, tennis, dormitory, atheist, christianity, science, religion versus science, chess ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Potential Inertia (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very ...
Plot: love, college, graduation, loss, hopes, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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