Movies like A Reckoning 2017

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A Reckoning (2017)
A Reckoning (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A Reckoning will be an accurate portrayal of history, while largely fictionalizing the townspeople. It is a story filled with compelling characters, drama, and conspiracy. A small, integrated town begins to unravel over an affair between a white, affluent women and a local, black business owner.
Style: independent film
Plot: violence, murder, war criminal, american history, affair, film history
Place: north carolina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, independent film and suspenseful films with plots about murder, violence, death, revenge, blood, female nudity and police mostly in Drama, Crime and History genres. Some movies like A Reckoning: Explosion (1969), The Laramie Project (2002), Naakaa (2017), The Ultimate Thrill (1974), Family Honor (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 38
Explosion (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, counterculture, juvenile delinquent, hippie, murder, psychiatrist, canuxploitation, deserter, misanthrope, death, father son relationship, violence ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Laramie Project (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: murder, gay, politics, gay bashing, sexuality, violence, gay slur, sin, hypocrisy, interview, gay interest, lgbt ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
 30
Naakaa (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter ...
Plot: border, jealousy, revenge, fight, chase, murder, violence, blood, police
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Ultimate Thrill (1974)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, obsession, chase, stalker, marriage, jealousy, affair, businessman, skiing, stalking
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 5.6
 89
Family Honor (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hard hitting, gritty but low budget mob drama of disgraced mobster trying to go straight but not allowed to by his "family" unit.
Plot: urban, mafia, father, mother, corrupt cop, catholic church, vendetta, honor, ex convict, armed robbery, catholic priest, crooked cop ...
Place: bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.0
 1K
Route 9 (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: small town, cop, nypd, cash, sheriff, investigation, drug dealing, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, crime gone awry, corrupt law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.6
 21
Transit (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
Style: independent film, hispanic
Plot: murder, gangster, death, violence, graffiti, death of protagonist
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Claudia Case (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been ...
Plot: death, corpse, violence, criminal, female nudity, corruption, murder, crime investigation, murder of a nude woman, nudity, homicide, naked dead woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 4.5
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Union Bound (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.
Plot: american civil war, slavery, civil war, black, american history, prisoner of war camp, union soldier, woods, slave, patriotism, sacrifice, train ...
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Avenge Every Second (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!
Style: independent film
Plot: shootout, murder, police, car chase, revenge, mafia, violence, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 60
Hoodlums (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on ...
Plot: nightclub, escort, business, casino, mobster, exploitation, rescue, city, affair, vigilante, gangster, prostitute ...
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51%
 5.3
 145
Riverhead (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
Style: independent film
Plot: small town, police officer, family relations, violence, protestant, murder, police, catholic, revenge, trouble
Place: newfoundland, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Bésame mucho (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: At millenium's end, a psychopath is terrorizing a major Latin city. This unusual Mexican thriller skillfully blends the thriller and romance genres.
Plot: male full rear nudity, murder, man kills a woman, violence, infidelity, high society, female nudity, single woman, political corruption, rape and murder, corrupt politician, turtle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Bad to the Bone (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bad girl uses her brother to kill her lover.
Plot: brother sister relationship, femme fatale, murder
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 7.7
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Rhino (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: An NFL veteran who's become a college-town drug kingpin takes in a protégé, but eventually the relationship turns volatile and deadly.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: meth lab, violence, crime boss, death, vengeance, murder, criminal heroes, revenge, society, rivalry, illegal drugs, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Circle of Deception (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on Ann Rule's true crime book Practice to Deceive. In this New York Times Best Seller, a small, island community is turned upside down when Russel Douglas, a local businessman, is found dead the day after Christmas.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
Plot: murder mystery, police investigation, who done it, murder, uncover truth, investigation, partners against crime, partner, violence, murderer, police officer, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.2
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A Time To Die (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the ...
Style: independent film, eighties
Plot: revenge, world war, vigilante, spy, manhunt, terror, war crime, nazi, war criminal, past, torture, world war two ...
Time: year 1982, post world war two
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Bloody Child (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
Style: experimental
Plot: soldier, military police, horse, surrealism, death, husband wife relationship, murder, prisoner, blood, violence, marriage, corpse ...
Place: mojave desert, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.1
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A Safe House (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man named Bill Solino who discovers not only that his deceased father was a mobster but also that his uncle, who raised him, may have had a hand in his fathers murder twenty years earlier.
Style: suspense, psychological, contemplative
Plot: guilt, gangster, violence, godfather, coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, twists and turns, family relations, death in the family, danger, hidden truth, father ...
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Born Bad (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teenagers rob a bank, causing a deadly standoff.
Style: surprise ending
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the investigation and trial of abortion provider Dr Kermit Gosnell.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: courtroom, law and order, investigation, murder, criminal, crime investigation, doctor, danger, legal, murderer, violence, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Awakening of Candra (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
Style: psychological thriller
Plot: vacation, wilderness, fisherman, woman in jeopardy, fiancee, police officer, police, violence, rape, psychopath, murder, honeymoon ...
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42%
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The Colonel (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: military, algerian war, torture, murder, investigation, military life, state affairs, uncover truth, love affair, brutality, war, soldier ...
Time: 90s, 50s
Place: algeria, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.9
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Crack (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
Plot: african american, corrupt cop, telephone call, gas mask, murder, handgun, helicopter, bare breasts, blood, robbery, money, violence ...
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Gettysburg (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min.
Story: Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and ...
Style: epic, factual, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american civil war, military, battles, war, civil war, slavery, civil rights, soldier, usa history, battlefield, prejudice, infantry ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, maryland
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The Gang of Oss (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 30ties of the 20th century. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: gang, life is a bitch, starting over, down on your luck, redemption, hopes, small town, criminal, violence, murder, sex scene, dutch mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Assassination of Mattarella (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future ...
Style: contemplative, touching, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
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The Red Horse (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the democratic party DAG, as well as the innocent inhabitants ...
Plot: partisan, exile, communist, mountain, fascism, communism, exodus, killing a horse, homecoming, martyr, gang, ship ...
Time: post world war two
Place: black sea, istanbul turkey, soviet union, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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April Morning (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: american revolution, american history, colonialism, war for independence, freedom, struggle, soldier, revolutionary war, independence, conflict, medieval, president ...
Time: 18th century, 1770s
Place: america, massachusetts, usa, new england, north america
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Wild Wind (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, hanged man, nazi, river, violence, machine gun, death, train, murder, blood, traitor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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