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What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997)
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What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Rose Earl is proud as a peacock when Bobby, her eldest, whom she raised, like his kid brother Michael, to become moral men an model citizens, is the first member of the modest family ever to get accepted at college. It will take a while till she starts getting aware of it, but after he joins a respectable fraternity Bobby becomes ever more influenced by his roomy, the ambitious Tom Stahl, who promises him the world as they form an unbeatable team...
Plot: true crime, college, murder, missing person, theft, deception, caucasian, fraternity, insurance fraud, burglary, brother brother relationship, courtroom, arson, trial, court, mother son relationship, uzi, suit and tie, lifetime

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about murder, true crime, trial, courtroom, serial killer, investigation and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like What Happened to Bobby Earl?: If Looks Could Kill (1996), Empty Cradle (1993), Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013), The Perfect Mother (1997), One Angry Juror (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
Plot: stalker, sexual harassment, trial, courtroom, true crime
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If Looks Could Kill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
Plot: serial killer, gay, murder, con artists, true crime, insurance fraud, male homosexuality, insurance, scam, bisexual, homosexual
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Empty Cradle (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is ...
Style: suspense, mystical
Plot: dilemma, love, wife, true crime, parents, midwife, faked pregnancy, parent child relationship, kidnapping, child kidnapping, pregnancy, murder ...
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75%
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
Plot: love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
Place: san diego california
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73%
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, detective ...
Plot: trial, true crime, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, legal, dedicated lawyer, obsession, courtroom, life is a bitch, law, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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69%
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
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63%
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Plot: serial killer, true crime, brother brother relationship, death of father, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, murder, courtroom, family relations, death of mother, patricide ...
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58%
Murder or Memory: A Moment of Truth Movie (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
Style: factual
Plot: teenage boy, murder, courtroom, hypnosis, false confession, trial, law, true crime
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Perfect Mother (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to keep control of their three sons' lives. Simpleton Dan is happy to sire the crucial heir ...
Style: depressing
Plot: serial killer, marriage as hell, mother in law, child custody, loyalty, trial, in laws, false identity, brother brother relationship, abuse, murder, divorce ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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
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52%
Only God Can Judge Me (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Film from Tody Walker
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, murder, courtroom, jury, redemption, trial
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
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49%
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Into Thin Air (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their ...
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, missing son, survival, grief, family relations, private detective, investigation, college, kidnapping, teenage life, school, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine, colorado, usa
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47%
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The Letter (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Style: eighties
Plot: blackmail, murder, deception, infidelity, husband wife relationship, trial, marriage
Place: malaysia
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43%
The Killing Yard (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Plot: blaxploitation, law, helicopter, prison riot, massacre, false accusation, prison, murder, courtroom, political corruption
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40%
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Shipman (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, doctor, police investigation, trial, fraud, doctor patient relationship, police arrest, murder, drug overdose, trust, old man, forgery ...
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39%
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style: spooky, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: self defense, lawyer, extramarital affair, true crime, law, serial killer, murder, couples, dangerous attraction, vengeance, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
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38%
Looking for Angelina (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Plot: murder, courtroom, murderer, trial, courtroom drama, husband
Place: canada, ontario canada
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Before He Wakes (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, love, black widow, basketball coach, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, deception, money, divorce, christianity, life insurance ...
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Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Plot: serial killer, religion, true crime, polygamy, religious fundamentalist, mormon, sermon, religious fundamentalism, cult leader, sect, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time: 70s
Place: utah
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37%
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Plot: prison, marital abuse, prison escape, murder, women's prison, child abuse, alcoholism
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My Son Johnny (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the ...
Plot: bullying, childhood memory, forest, fratricide, trial, kitten, brother, violence, arrow, knife, saxophone
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35%
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organisation, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, partisan, fbi agent, terrorist group, heiress, ransom, kidnapper kidnapped relationship
Time: 70s
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Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Plot: missing person, murder, police officer, missing wife, murder suspect, couple relations, husband wife relationship, funeral, woman killed, couples, cop, patrolman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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32%
Innocent Victims (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Plot: love, true crime, sergeant, military, mother daughter relationship, child murder, investigation, u.s. army, multiple murder, captain, testimony, u.s. air force ...
Time: 80s
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31%
Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: youth, murder, hate crime, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay, real life, violent content, injustice, gender ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: wyoming, wisconsin
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31%
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Trial by Fire (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot: death penalty, court, trial, lawyer, arson, justice, fighting the system, death sentence, false accusation, freedom, legal, hopes ...
Place: texas
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3 Acts of Murder (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. ...
Style: detective
Plot: serial killer, murder, writers, missing person, truck, investigation, camel, true crime
Time: year 1929
Place: australia
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30%
Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: boy, murder, death of child, child murder, justice, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, true crime, trial, injustice, police station, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2000
Place: africa, nigeria, london
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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
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