Movies like Salem Witch Trials

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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, detective, historical drama, thought provoking, fairy tale
Plot: witch hunt, false accusation, puritan, execution, society, religions or cults, politics, legal, courtroom drama, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty, state affairs, witch, religion, faith, religious fanaticism, fire, preacher, magic, american history, salem witch trial, black magic, aftermath, mass hysteria ...
Time: 17th century, 1600s
Place: massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and thought provoking films with plots about life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, courtroom drama, deadly and false accusation mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like Salem Witch Trials: Devil's Bride (2016), The Crucible (1996), Coven (2020), The Crucible (1967), The 13 Roses (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Devil's Bride (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666, during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed. ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, historical drama
Plot: witch hunt, witch, false accusation, adultery, betrayal, jealousy, witchcraft, fall in love, lie, village, rural setting, young woman ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: finland
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The Crucible (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style: talky, suspense, disturbing, rough, dramatic ...
Plot: witch, witch hunt, salem witch trial, courtroom drama, witchcraft, colonial america, legal, politics, vengeance, curse, court, manipulation ...
Time: 17th century, 90s
Place: massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, new england
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100%
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Coven (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea. Ana joins other girls from the village to dance in the woods. Judge Rostegui, given the task of purifying the region by the King, arrests the women and accuses them of witchcraft. He decides to ...
Style: satanic, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: inquisition, spanish inquisition, witch, witch hunt, witchcraft, coven, witch burning, medieval, religious fanatic, social misfits, religious persecution, accusation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: basque country, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
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The Crucible (1967)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
Style: allegory
Plot: slavery, aftermath, salem witch trial, hanging, adolescence, suicide attempt, death of husband, religious fundamentalism, feud, expert, dancing, infidelity ...
Time: 17th century
Place: salem massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
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, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, rivalry, bounty hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
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The 13 Roses (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, false accusation, social decay, life is a bitch, betrayal, idealism, society, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Vendetta (1999)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a true tale of power, corruption and murder, Christopher Walken stars in the story of the largest lynching in American history...
Style: independent film, emotional, sincere, rough, bleak ...
Plot: courtroom drama, ancient, political intrigue, biopic, italian mafia, intrigue, immigrant, lynching, mafia, righting the wronged, injustice, courtroom ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1890s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Heart of the Beholder (2005)
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 ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: fighting the system, rivalry, rebellion, religions or cults, injustice, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, corporate crime, campaign ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
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, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.3
 914
Family Sins (2004)
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: realistic, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: courtroom drama, unlikely criminals, legal action, family problems, dishonesty, legal, under the surface, love, parents and children, eccentric family, kidnapping, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
 105
The Radicals (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
Style: biblical, independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: liberation theology, faith, ancient, biopic, christian, medieval, christianity, church, reformation, religions or cults, clergy, heroes ...
Time: 16th century, ancient times
Place: switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.5
 730
The 19th Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: false accusation, murder, righting the wronged, society, estrangement, church, religions or cults, polygamy, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, oracle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: terrorism, coal mining, fighting the system, injustice, working undercover, society, social decay, legal, rebel, union, sabotage, coal mine ...
Time: 19th century, year 1970, 1870s
Place: usa, america, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.9
 52
Boxed (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: ira, moral dilemma, idealism, uncover truth, fighting the system, social decay, society, tragic hero, politics, life is a bitch, danger, terrorism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot: epidemic, disease, public health, doctors and patients, politics, hopes, life is a bitch, society, plague, terminal illness, medical profession, quarantine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, china, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Conspirator (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Style: political, period piece, factual, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, civil war, president, assassination, legal, historical character, politics, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 1860s, year 1865
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be ...
Style: serious, bleak, thought provoking, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: murder, electric chair, courtroom, workplace, courtroom drama, racism, boss and employee, false accusation, dishonesty, couples, power relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 468
The Exonerated (2005)
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, mockumentary
Plot: false accusation, racism, human spirit, fighting the system, injustice, courtroom drama, confined, life is a bitch, legal, society, hopes, rebellion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Citizen Verdict (2003)
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, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: jury, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, murder, false accusation, political corruption, political unrest, courtroom, power relations, rebellion, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, thought provoking ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: true crime, serial killer, violent, kidnapping, murder, child kidnapping, missing child, folk hero, death in the family, media, dealing with death, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing. (1997)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, world trade center manhattan new york city, disaster, politics, undercover, witnessing a crime, state affairs, leadership, chases and races, law enforcement, incompetent official, failed attempt ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Death of a Prophet (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm marched on - continuing to spread the word of ...
Style: controversial, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere
Plot: racism, african american, civil rights, civil rights movement, book, black, revenge, blaxploitation, bookstore, assassination, politics, jazz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 60s
Place: america
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27%
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: american politics, politician, royalty, corporation, fascism, assassination, biopic, campaign, rise to the top, society, life is a bitch, media ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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One Angry Juror (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: murder, courtroom, investigation, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, trial, prosecutor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, esoteric ...
Plot: rebellion, christianity, rebel, political unrest, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, religions or cults, state affairs, tragic event, indigenous people, war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
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27%
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Boycott (2001)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, political, talky
Plot: civil rights movement, racism, interracial relations, civil rights, racial prejudice, protest, social activism, fighting the system, human spirit, social differences, discrimination, injustice ...
Time: 50s
Place: america, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Witchhammer (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then ...
Style: atmospheric, gothic horror, satanic, gothic, serious ...
Plot: witch, nudity, burned alive, medieval, folk horror, burned at the stake, female nudity, witchcraft, occult, religions or cults, inquisition, terror ...
Time: middle ages, 20th century, year 1970, 17th century
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Inherit the Wind (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 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: contemplative, talky, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, religion, lawyer, evolution, legal, bigotry, religions or cults, social relations, small town, small town life, rebellion ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Snap Decision (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One mother must fight back to prove her innocence or lose her children.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, detective ...
Plot: false accusation, courtroom, courtroom drama, family relations, injustice, righting the wronged, custody, parents and children, legal, legal action, dishonesty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Zuzu Angel (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: fighting the system, uncover truth, missing person, injustice, life is a bitch, society, politics, rebellion, legal, price of justice, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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26%
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