Movies like Pressure Point
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Pressure Point (1962)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style:
mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
world war two, psychopath, prison, mental disorder, psychiatrist, nightmare, anti semitism, blaxploitation, interracial relations, fascism, insomnia, black american, escape, racism, human spirit, mental illness, prison life, teenage life, society, confined, rebelliousness, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, idealism, mentally unstable ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 40s
Place:
africa, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city, harlem manhattan new york city
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
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skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, jewish, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the 1940's South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Duration: 46 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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