Movies like Heart of the Beholder
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Heart of the Beholder (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin Scorsese's controversial film, "The Last Temptation of Christ", from their stores.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
rebellion, fighting the system, rivalry, life is a bitch, injustice, legal, society, courtroom drama, corporate crime, dishonesty, religions or cults, store, campaign, blackmail, intolerance, religious fanaticism, medieval, religion, atheism, gay, legal action, taxi, sexual relations, child abduction, religious fanatic ...
Time:
80s, 21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Heart of the Beholder
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and disturbing films with plots about society, life is a bitch, legal, fighting the system, injustice, dishonesty and rebellion mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Heart of the Beholder: Afterburn (1992), Inherit the Wind (1999), Just Ask My Children (2001), The Attorney (2013), The Exonerated (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
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disturbing, captivating, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
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aviation, state affairs, dishonesty, hopes, heroes, politics, law enforcement, righting the wronged, legal, fighting the system, rivalry, investigation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
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prison, confined, fighting the system, uncover truth, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
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78%
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.
Style:
gothic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
religion versus science, courtroom drama, lawyer, religion, court, small town, courtroom, hopes, dishonesty, idealism, legal action, journalism ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
Style:
disturbing, serious, thought provoking, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
custody, fighting the system, courtroom drama, false accusation, injustice, family problems, dishonesty, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, parents and children, plaintiff ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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 ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
busan, south korea, korea
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68%
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.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
death row, false accusation, racism, injustice, fighting the system, human spirit, courtroom drama, hopes, society, life is a bitch, rebellion, legal ...
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
babies and infants, adoption, black market, sting operation, fighting the system, kids in trouble, social decay, society, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, injustice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional
Plot:
public health, idealism, ambition, rebellion, uncover truth, fighting the system, against the odds, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, workplace, legal action ...
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65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
gay, lgbt, murder, criminal lawyer, gay slur, false accusation, courtroom drama, siblings relations, interracial relations, racism, police corruption, injustice ...
Time:
50s
Place:
bronx new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marty Rockman, the notorious producer of the hit reality-TV show "So Sue Me", has a brand new concept: "Citizen Verdict". Each week a real criminal case will be tried before the American people, but this time they're also ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, bleak, thought provoking ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom drama, tv show, legal investigation, dishonesty, power relations, courtroom, society, state affairs, fighting the system, law enforcement, rebellion ...
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
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serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
judge, unhappy wife, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, injustice, life is a bitch, unsupportive spouse, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, fighting the system, legal investigation, social differences, false accusation, price of justice, society ...
Time:
50s
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
church, sexual abuse, clergy, legal investigation, courtroom drama, social decay, sexual harassment, fighting the system, legal, society, dishonesty, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, usa, france, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the fall of 2004, Eric Bertrand, a 14 years , created a website inspired by "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" to defend the Catalan language. One night, thirty civil guards of anti-terrorist squad Madrid, burst into his home ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
false accusation, fighting the system, rebellion, against the odds, society, dishonesty, youth, teenage life, life turned upside down, injustice, computers and web, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
homeless, heroic mission, power relations, injustice, righting the wronged, campaign, hopes, social misfits, state affairs, heroes, legal, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
lawyer, professor, terrorist, court, terrorism, legal, injustice, power relations, hotshot lawyer, rebellion, legal investigation, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, thought provoking, serious, bleak
Plot:
sexual abuse, unlikely criminals, courtroom drama, legal action, family problems, dishonesty, legal, under the surface, love, family relations, parents and children, arson ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking, political
Plot:
prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, fighting the system, rebellion, against the rules, price of justice, injustice, militant, rebelliousness ...
Place:
usa, california
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47%
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, disturbing, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
fighting the system, deportation, rebellion, courtroom drama, idealism, hopes, hotshot lawyer, politics, legal, life is a bitch, terrorism, injustice ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, new york, bangladesh, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Films like Salem Witch Trials
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Style:
political, thought provoking, captivating, uplifting, talky ...
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom drama, jewish, aging, lawyer, suburbs, civil rights, small town life, small town, genocide, culture clash, anti semitism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style:
tense, uplifting, thought provoking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
discrimination, apartheid, social change, prison, racism, politics, society, rebellion, legal, hopes, heroes, fighting the system ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s
Place:
south africa, africa
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mali, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, biting ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, young lovers, legal, society, legal investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, courtroom drama, racism ...
Place:
africa
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A frustrated radio DJ takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention after the FCC has slapped his station with $1 million in indecency fines, and popular radio personality Joe Pace (Josh Hamilton) isn't going down ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, political
Plot:
politics, radio dj, fighting the system, rebellion, republican, injustice, hopes, idealism, chaos, americana, state affairs, protest ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an assassin who killed a mayor in the 1970's in what was known as the "Twinkie Defense".
Style:
controversial, thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, murder, lgbt, miscarriage of justice, insanity, power relations, injustice, legal action, assassination, against the rules, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Movies like A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, racism, fighting the system, redemption, going straight, protagonist as suspect, injustice, frame up, life is a bitch, hopes, society, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, youth, hate crime, social decay, life is a bitch, society, gay slur, gay, college, coming out, injustice, gender ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
wyoming, wisconsin
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39%
483
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, working class, labor union, ambition, human spirit, fighting the system, rebellion, injustice, rebelliousness, society, legal, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, realistic, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
fighting the system, rebellion, price of justice, against the odds, poverty, life is a bitch, society, human nature, human spirit, legal, ambition, racism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
kentucky, appalachia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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.
Style:
serious, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, interracial relations, discrimination, dishonesty, injustice, racism, jury, against the odds, dedicated lawyer, legal action, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, alabama, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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