Movies like Bigger Than the Beatles

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Bigger Than the Beatles (2017)
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Bigger Than the Beatles (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: When Beach Boy Dennis Wilson introduced his new pal to the L.A. music scene, sparks began to fly. Charlie, an intense singer-songwriter, penned some songs for The Beach Boys, but his worldwide fame came for another reason entirely.
Plot: charles manson, rock and roll, lie, beach boys
Time: year 1968

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and independent film films with plots about lie, family relations, love, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, deception and parents and children mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bigger Than the Beatles: Purple Haze (1982), I'm Not Jesus Mommy (2010), Blackout (2007), The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993), Captain Milkshake (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
Plot: suburbs, rock band, rock star, rock and roll, elvis presley
Time: 1950s
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95%
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three short stories about women & men relationship.
Style: anthology
Plot: omnibus, prostitute, lie
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Rickey L Colbert Jr's Where the Truth Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: A family searches for the truth ,when their lives get turned upside down after some unforeseen circumstances happen.
Style: happy, sad
Plot: lie, scared, honest, humble, hate, truth, death, love, happiness, sadness
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Purple Haze (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's dynamite stuff.
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, father son relationship, friendship, college, dropout, vietnam war, homecoming, summer, coming of age, dj, dormitory, military service ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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I'm Not Jesus Mommy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kimberly will stop at nothing to have a child of her own. Recovering from cancer her possibilities seemed slim. However, the world's first successful human cloning project brings an opportunity and a son named David. Seven years after ...
Style: tense, bleak, disturbing, serious
Plot: religion, cloning, dystopian future, obsession, danger, haunted by the past, coming of age, imaginary, life is a bitch, jesus, husband wife relationship, christianity ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Blackout (2007)
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: disturbing, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, stash, urban, woman
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drama - It's 1982, and Midwestern housewife Joyce Jackson (Roseanne) is obsessed with Elvis Presley; she's even used the King of Rock and Roll's inspiration to turn her house into a wacky shrine. Convinced Presley's still alive, ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: social relations, family relations, social misfits, obsession, artists and showbiz, rock, eccentric family, obsessed fan, rock and roll, delusional woman, delusion, music fan ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Captain Milkshake (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, stoner, marine, vietnam veteran, lsd, cigar, army captain, morality, anti war, marijuana, drug ...
Time: 60s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Berkeley (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: teenager, teenage life, lifestyle change, changing lives, lifestyle, self discovery, introspection, illegal drugs, drug, nudity, female nudity, rock and roll ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, ...
Style: detective
Plot: cheerleader, family drama, photography, impersonation, father, lie, young girl, actor, robot, hugging, hotel, train ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.7
 95
'68 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: '68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing ...
Style: independent film, soap opera
Plot: vietnam war, gay, love, exploitation, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, lgbt, strong female character, journalist ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Autumn Days (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house ...
Plot: deception, christmas, wedding, nosy neighbor, bakery, widower, loneliness, psychology, driver, lie, single woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Lie (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.
Style: realistic, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: introspection, couples, boss and employee, couple relations, parents and children, profanity, family relations, power relations, lifestyle, coming of age, unfulfillment, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: courtroom, murder, family problems, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, legal, life is a bitch, false accusation, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Going for Broke (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sad
Plot: gambling, casino, stolen money, compulsive gambler, gambler, financial problem, money problems, needing money, family problems, relationship problems, social problems, lie ...
Place: las vegas, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
Style: avant garde
Plot: revolutionary, womanizer, class struggle, working class, irony, political protest, political activist, marxist, storyteller, song
Time: year 1968
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: psychological, captivating, minimal cast, hot
Plot: lie, life is a bitch, relationships, conflict, wartime, relationship problems, social problems, couple relations, sex scene, shooting, male nudity, female nudity ...
Time: year 1993
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34%
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Sinner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: suspense, captivating, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Violet (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, art film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Fucha (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Plot: renaissance, national identity, drunkard, grave, dignity, renovation, cemetery, history teacher, lie, heroes, coffin, headstone
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 282
@urFRENZ (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Ben Is Back (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 19 year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, ...
Style: social, tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Gate to Heaven (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Lithuania, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the ...
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28%
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Station (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Plot: humanity, love, olympics, police officer, shooting, train station, suicide, snow, divorce, live action, suicide note
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Place: hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Playing with Fire (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: sincere, captivating, touching, serious, realistic
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Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: independent film
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Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: True story of an abusive husband's obsession with his wife and daughter.
Plot: domestic violence, abusive relationship, obsession, husband hits wife, husband wife relationship, abusive husband, abduction, marriage, psychopath, employee, threat, flowers ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
LBJ: The Early Years (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: biopic, president, john f. kennedy, politics, usa president, rise to the top, campaign, state affairs, media, head of state, ambition, political election ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 1930s, 50s, year 1966 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot: down syndrome, disability, haunted by the past, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: kentucky, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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