Movies like Subwave
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Subwave (1995)
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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, court, fire, statutory rape, son, family crisis, abuse, regret, dormitory, lawyer, party, mother, father son relationship, swimming pool, trial
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychotronic and psychological films with plots about rape, lawyer, court, murder, abuse, son and mother mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Subwave: A Death of Innocence (1971), All the Winters That Have Been (1997), The Verdict (1974), In from the Night (2006), Free, White and 21 (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Plot:
mother, daughter, mother daughter relationship, murder, court, footprint
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, blackmail, death sentence, mother love, rape, nude, court, murder, mother, kidnapping, female nudity ...
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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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
Plot:
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
nostalgic
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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