Movies like An American Story
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An American Story (1992)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
world war two, politics, battles, soldier, military, friendship, friends, rebellion, fighting the system, society, innocence lost, homecoming, political corruption, dishonesty, state affairs, cons and scams, gunfight, post war, corruption, sheriff, veteran, mayor, surrender, explosion, dynamite ...
Time:
1940s, 40s
Place:
texas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and captivating films with plots about society, state affairs, life is a bitch, fighting the system, rebellion, dishonesty and politics mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like An American Story: Afterburn (1992), Badland (2007), Power (1986), The Little Traitor (2007), A Glimpse of Hell (2001). 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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Plot:
aviation, state affairs, dishonesty, hopes, heroes, politics, law enforcement, righting the wronged, legal, fighting the system, rivalry, investigation ...
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494
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
soldier, starting over, homecoming, military, hopes, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, war, desperation, intrigue, war in afghanistan, prison ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iraq, middle east, afghanistan
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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.
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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
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91%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, clever, political ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, cover up, manipulation, campaign, fighting the system, society, state affairs, political intrigue, legal, journalism, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, military, rebellion, friends, soldier, state affairs, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, british military, jewish, children in wartime ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1977, year 1947
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, london
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87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
u.s. navy, military, society, military life, investigation, fighting the system, ship, political conspiracy, campaign, army investigation, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
556
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, train, cult, friendship, homecoming, love, mentally unstable, military, war, buddies, college ...
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, asia
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79%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. This is their guide.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, drug dealing, immigrants, partners, cons and scams, dishonesty, misfit, friends, mental illness, graphic violence, society, fighting the system ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
310
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
farm, social relations, stoners, small town, drug abuse, small town life, rebellion, immigrants, introspection, drug dealing, moral dilemma, innocence lost ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ⇓
63%
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Films like Family Sins
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, legal, injustice, racism, politics, betrayal, undercover, state affairs, uncover truth, spy, vietnam war, false accusation ...
Time:
50s, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, political, realistic
Plot:
vietnam war, fighting the system, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, military, hopes, immigrants, tragic hero, parents and children, political unrest, re-education ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, california, usa, asia
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58%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
journalism, military, life is a bitch, soldier, war, friends, anti war, destiny, friendship, captivity, military life, skinny dipping ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. ...
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, whistleblower, uncover truth, dishonesty, head of state, soldier, state affairs, fighting the system, introspection, military, political corruption, political conspiracy ...
Place:
vietnam, new york, usa, asia
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56%
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 ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
wartime life, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, politics, political unrest, state affairs, society, anti war, world war one, archive footage
Time:
20th century
Place:
bosnia
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, homecoming, culture clash, translator, human nature, racism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, california, asia, usa
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54%
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 ⇓
53%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, doctors and patients, society, injustice, life is a bitch, wartime life, friendship, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, jewish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, palestinian authority
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53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
sheriff, starting over, haunted by the past, going straight, society, friendship, small town, redemption, parole, arrest, convict, mexican american border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, graphic violence, rise to the top, rebellion, journalism, media, uncover truth, dishonesty, hidden identity, state affairs, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, germany
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
homecoming, family relations, family life, redemption, society, parents and children, soldier, buddies, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, psychopath, gulf war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, el paso texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, americana, parents and children, discrimination, teenage life, politics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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592
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, lie, violence, nypd, stash, woman, danger, urban
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, betrayal, dishonesty, state affairs, fighting the system, relationship vs career, workplace, moral dilemma, couple relations, legal, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, uplifting
Plot:
military, basic training, military training, mistaken identity, world war two, marine, dishonesty, war, hopes, getting home, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, battles, politics, military, heroes, confined, war, against humanity, society, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, europe, sweden
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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48%
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