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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
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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, female nudity, execution, society, religions or cults, politics, legal, courtroom drama, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty, state affairs, witch, magic, american history, black magic, aftermath, minefield, curses spells and rituals, puritan, witchcraft, colonial america, jail cell, hanging, false accusation ...
Time:
17th century, 1600s
Place:
massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and thought provoking films with plots about life is a bitch, society, legal, dishonesty, deadly, courtroom drama and state affairs mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like Salem Witch Trials: Devil's Bride (2016), The Crucible (1996), Coven (2020), Vendetta (1999), Boxed (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
tense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, historical drama
Plot:
witch hunt, adultery, jealousy, black magic, witch, rural setting, priest, power, young woman, judge, rape, domestic violence ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
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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, costume drama, gothic, period piece ...
Plot:
witch hunt, witch, salem witch trial, curse, courtroom drama, colonial america, politics, spell, twists and turns, vengeance, court, manipulation ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror
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, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
inquisition, witch, witch hunt, spanish inquisition, coven, spell, witch burning, satanic cult, medieval, religions or cults, accusation, religious fanatic ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
basque country, spain
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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, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
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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, captivating, sincere, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, mafia, lynching, ancient, biopic, political intrigue, italian mafia, intrigue, italian gangster, immigrant, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1890s
Place:
new orleans, usa
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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, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, uncover truth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, idealism, social decay, church, society, legal, politics, terrorism, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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33%
Genre: Drama, History
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:
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Plot:
apartheid, racism, prison, discrimination, house arrest, social change, biopic, righting the wronged, injustice, politics, rebellion, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
33%
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, tense ...
Plot:
prison, confined, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, legal, legal action, prison life, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
33%
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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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
rebellion, rivalry, fighting the system, courtroom drama, injustice, religions or cults, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, corporate crime, store ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
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:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
32%
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:
disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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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, bleak, thought provoking, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, killing spree, violent, kidnapping, murder, child kidnapping, dealing with death, journalism, dishonesty, folk hero, courtroom drama ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
terrorism, world trade center manhattan new york city, disaster, politics, witnessing a crime, state affairs, chases and races, law enforcement, undercover, leadership, skyscraper, incompetent official ...
Time:
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Place:
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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:
rebellion, death row, false accusation, racism, injustice, courtroom drama, society, hopes, life is a bitch, confined, legal, prison life ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, controversial
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
false accusation, religions or cults, racism, high school life, youth, teachers and students, culture clash, legal action, life is a bitch, social differences, legal, rebellion ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
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:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
toronto ontario canada, china, canada
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
philadelphia
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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:
period piece, thought provoking, political, factual, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, civil war, courtroom drama, assassination, politics, president, historical character, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial, court ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1800s, year 1865, 1860s ...
Place:
usa, north america, washington d.c., england, california
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31%
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, psychological, serious, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, fighting the system, injustice, life is a bitch, politics, legal, society, rebellion, parents and children, political unrest, price of justice ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Style:
thought provoking, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, trial, uncover truth, investigation, courtroom drama, false accusation, life is a bitch, legal, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, prosecutor ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the first euphoric years following independence, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, are promised a bright future in a free Algeria until one day when betrayal separates them.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
betrayal, life turned upside down, rebellion, dishonesty, rebelliousness, political unrest, social decay, friendship, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, friends ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
losing-it hero, politics, korean history, soldier, heroes, vigilantism, rivalry, political unrest, assassination, state affairs, danger, redemption ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, allegory ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch hunt, accusation, persecution, salem witch trial, torture, witch, false accusation, women, town, problem, death threat, religious hypocrisy ...
Place:
salem massachusetts, new england
Similarity:
31%
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, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, racism, injustice, protagonist as suspect, going straight, redemption, fighting the system, frame up, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, texas, usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
polygamy, murder, false accusation, righting the wronged, society, religions or cults, church, estrangement, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
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