Movies like Subwave

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Subwave (1995)
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Subwave (1995)
Original name: A Family Divided
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 party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
Plot: rape, fire, statutory rape, son, family crisis, abuse, regret, trial, dormitory, lawyer, party, mother, swimming pool, father son relationship, bare chested male, court

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Most similar movies to Subwave

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about rape, lawyer, family relations, trial, father son relationship, mother and bare chested male mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Subwave: The Verdict (1974), A Death of Innocence (1971), All the Winters That Have Been (1997), Back When We Were Grownups (2004), Free, White and 21 (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Verdict (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, mother love, death penalty, blackmail, rape, nudity, kidnapping, male nudity, murder, female nudity ...
Place: lyon
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100%
A Death of Innocence (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Plot: daughter, mother, mother daughter relationship, trial, murder, footprint
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
All the Winters That Have Been (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win ...
Plot: father son relationship, male bonding, in laws, fire, fatherhood, campfire
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26%
Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels ...
Style: crying
Plot: doctor, wedding, unhappiness, family relations, unconventional family, bare chested male, photograph, restaurant, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, library, train ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Free, White and 21 (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: civil rights, racist, interracial relations, jury, courtroom, rape, segregation, false accusation, businessman, trial, cross cultural relations, criminal ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
In from the Night (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes ...
Plot: aunt nephew relationship, nephew, abuse, dream, trial, punishment, vandalism, nightmare, father figure, aunt, ritual, medical examination ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Paris Trout (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married ...
Style: neo noir, biting, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: children, lawyer, abusive relationship, relationships, law, marital rape, nudity, family relations, racism, small town, redneck, abusive husband ...
Time: 1940s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. An independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed the local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
Plot: age-gap relationship, may december romance, age difference, community, small town, son, widow, love, department store, male female relationship, south
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Promised a Miracle (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
Plot: prison, court, death, small town, jail, faith, preacher, son, diabetic, trial, manslaughter, faith healing ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Going Home (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get ...
Style: neo noir
Audience: teen drama
Plot: girlfriend, son, trailer park, revenge, murder, father son relationship, mechanic, wife, witness, bare chested male, getting home, homecoming ...
Time: year 1971
Place: new jersey, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Rain (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rain (Brooklyn Sudano), a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful
Plot: musician's life, social differences, custody, prodigy, gang, artists and showbiz, society, witnessing a crime, woman in danger, blackmail, african american, homeless ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Circle of Violence - A Family Drama (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family ...
Plot: family crisis, parent child relationship, husband wife relationship, bickering, parents, physical abuse, mother daughter relationship, old age, loss of husband, abuse, abusive relationship, husband leaves wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Troubled Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: son, problem child, child protagonist, adoption, mother, treatment, disorder, therapy, children, family relations, trauma, boarder ...
Place: nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A suburban high school teacher is fired from her job for teaching sex education. But she continues to give private sessions at her home to her former students leading to rumors and complications around town.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: exploitation, high school, abortion, sex education, rape, domestic abuse, job, school, teensploitation, pills, rock band, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The College Admissions Scandal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Audience: teens
Plot: music manager, felony, extortion, arrest, swimming pool, fbi, money laundering, soccer, mother, college, daughter, son ...
Place: yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, child's point of view, youth, ambition, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, family in crisis, family life, father ...
Time: year 1989, 1920s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Capricciosa (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Swedish drama by Reza Bagher.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, teenager, father son relationship, foster home, family crisis, death of mother, funeral, alcohol abuse, nordic, alcoholism, dreaming ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Judgment (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Style: crying
Plot: altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile priest, child molester, coming of age, youth, catholic church, bare chested male, lawsuit, holy communion, boy, little girl ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Game of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The family of a basketball club's president conspires to force him to sell it.
Style: captivating
Plot: father son relationship, basketball, competition, family relations, male female relationship, basketball coach, basketball team, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, relationships, love affair, husband wife relationship ...
Place: seattle
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20%
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
Style: independent film
Plot: stage play, scuffle, down on your luck, drunkenness, beer, layoff, optimist, arrested, arrest, wife leaves husband, illness, nervous breakdown ...
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Plot: parent child relationship, serial rapist, fugitive, lovers on the run, rape, father son relationship, rapist
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Silent Witness (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
Plot: family conflict, rape, love, fear, family relations, rapist, trial, brother in law, testimony, rape victim, courtroom, gang rape ...
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19%
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Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of ...
Plot: woman killed, lawyer, love, trial, domestic violence, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, murder suspect, abuse, custody, divorce, physical abuse ...
Place: canada
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19%
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rural setting, rape, poverty, sexuality, sexual attraction, backwoods, community
Time: year 1994
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
My Son Is Innocent (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media ...
Plot: rape, falsely accused, mistaken identity, false accusation, police interrogation, police investigation, imprisonment, police station, courtroom
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Bonjour Amour (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ...
Plot: car crash, bare chested male, teenage boy, fire, brother brother relationship, photographer, father son relationship, sex, girlfriend, first love, car race, rebellion ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Feuten: Het Feestje (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Freshmen, seniors and alumni clash with each other, themselves, and the police during an Amsterdam fraternity's epic opening party.
Plot: police, female nudity, prank, lawyer, party, student, abuse, ritual, confrontation, fraternity, swat team, mockery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hubertus Castle (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Plot: hunting, animal, hunter, son, narrow mindedness, girl, boy, father son relationship, children, rural setting, hill, hut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Elements of Doubt (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Plot: sex party, bare chested male, female nudity, rape, father daughter relationship, hotel, courtroom, lawyer, accusation, rape victim, kindergarten, hearing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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