Movies like Just Be There

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Just Be There (1973)
Just Be There (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran, returns home to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Kathy and intends to write a novel about his war experiences, but is pushed by his overbearing father into a job selling pork bellies at a commodities firm. Quickly promoted to vice president for his work during the day, while writing the novel at night, proves too much for Mitchell; fearing that he has "sold out," he takes off on his motorcycle to "get his head together" early '70s-style. Somehow, schlockmeister Jack H. Harris (producer of THE BLOB) took this film and re-released it as something sexy called SWINGING TEACHER.
Plot: police officer, police, motorcycle, broker, father son relationship, letter, marriage proposal, aspiring writer, vietnam veteran, skinny dipping, homecoming, confrontation, country club, debutante, laundromat, apartment, vietnam war veteran

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about father son relationship, police, police officer, family relations, husband wife relationship, murder and drinking mostly in Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Just Be There: Night-Flowers (1979), Going Home (1971), The Lady from Yesterday (1985), Residue (2020), The Right to Remain Silent (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night-Flowers (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: frustration, psychiatric patient, murder, father son relationship, bus, rape, vietnam veteran, massage parlor, gym, roommate, police, fishing ...
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95%
 5.9
 678
Going Home (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get ...
Style: neo noir
Audience: teen drama
Plot: girlfriend, son, trailer park, revenge, murder, father son relationship, mechanic, wife, witness, bare chested male, getting home, homecoming ...
Time: year 1971
Place: new jersey, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Lady from Yesterday (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man (Rogers) with a wife (Bedelia) and two daughters and a flourishing career is visited by a woman (Chen) whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam. Who reveals to him that they have a son and that she wants him to take him (their son).
Plot: vietnam veteran, male female relationship, family relations, marriage, affair, past, secret, illegitimate son, father son relationship
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.6
 649
Residue (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Style: social
Plot: teenager, swearing, friend, rain, young boy, cycling, interracial relations, childhood friend, flashback, black, police, rainstorm ...
Time: 2020s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Right to Remain Silent (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paly is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals. Under the supervision of a tough but likable mentor, Christine quickly learns that hers is ...
Plot: rookie, police, police station, lapd, hiv, female police officer, racial slur, police officer, crossdresser, rally, ku klux klan, pizza delivery ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.1
 172
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 ⇓
55%
Badge of the Assassin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Style: crime drama
Plot: black, police investigation, nypd, murder investigation, police officer, cop killer, racism, buddy cop, black cop, murder, police, assistant district attorney
Place: new orleans, san francisco, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
Plot: alcoholics anonymous meeting, male female relationship, gay interest, family relations, military, husband wife relationship, police, love, marriage, father son relationship, friendship, post office ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 5.7
 394
Welcome Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An Air Force officer (Kris Kristofferson) returns to his father (Brian Keith), son and remarried wife (JoBeth Williams) in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, contemplative
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, grief, family relations, high school football, war veteran, power relations, hospital, military life, parents and children, anti war, captivity ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century
Place: vietnam, cambodia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Bus Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style: black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.4
 18K
Being Flynn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
We Can't Go Home Again (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Called by some a visionary masterpiece, and by others a fool’s errand, this controversial film embodies Ray’s last explorations in the medium that he called “the cathedral of the arts.” Along with its technical innovations unequaled even ...
Style: experimental, independent film, underground film, avant garde
Plot: erotica, nudity, police, singing, blood, police brutality, skinny dipping, security guard, swimming pool, female full frontal nudity, eye patch, barn ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: gay, father son relationship, erotica, gay interest, gay crush, lgbt, gay subtext, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, sexuality, gay erotica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 239
The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, college, male nudity, skinny dipping, drinking, protest, anti war, male pubic hair, group of friends, memories, buddies ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place: new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 149
The Burglar (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With a brother dedicated to punk rock stardom at any cost and a drunken father who chases skirt between robotic dancing lessons from the TV, young Senka stands as much chance of nurture as the hero of Truffaut's 400 Blows. The amazing thing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: perestroika, stealing, teenager, motorcycle, musician, concert, father son relationship, police, hallucination, generation gap, alcoholic father, teen angst ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
 25
Gundagardi (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by ...
Plot: police, police officer, death sentence, brother, death, brother brother relationship, cop, hindi
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5.1
 527
Me and Will (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in ...
Style: road movie, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, bike, drug addiction, addiction, road trip, escape, profanity, friends, drug abuse, clinic, on the road ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Over the Border (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
Plot: confrontation, inter-korean relations, money, promise, marriage, musician, escape, grandfather, letter, orchestra, border
Place: north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 2K
Desert Blue (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, black comedy ...
Plot: small town, friendship, desert, drinking, death, fire, fbi, suburbs, bomb, toxic, friends, coming of age ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mayflower Madam (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, escort, sex scandal, socialite, bankruptcy, double life, police, restaurant, vandalism, shopping, scandal ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 611
Little Chenier (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: LITTLE CHENIER: A CAJUN STORY is the story of a young man who lives a simple life on a houseboat in the Louisiana bayou with his mentally handicapped brother until one is accused of a crime in the small town.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: mentally challenged, mental illness, against the odds, uneducated, disability, family problems, family relations, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, mental retardation, alligator, small town sheriff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Turn the River (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Style: realistic, psychological, bleak, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: billiards, gambling, kidnapping, family relations, family problems, hopes, dysfunctional family, addiction, parents and children, estrangement, introspection, starting over ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada, new york, usa
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31%
Still Looking for Morphine (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Ricky rides her motorcycle among real and imagined dangers, to arrive unscathed, but unalterably changed, at the end of summer. The unrelenting wind of the season disrupts a landscape of inaction, theft and drug use. The end of innocence has already ...
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Back to Back (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.
Style: independent film
Plot: modern western, swimming pool, male nudity, hotel, robbery, police officer, skinny dipping, motorcycle, naked man, family relations, arizona desert, bare chested male ...
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31%
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Speakeasy (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, friendship, haunted by the past, drug addict, love and romance, hopes, redemption, introspection, human nature, homecoming, mute or deaf ...
Time: 1930s, 2000s
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31%
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
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30%
 4.8
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Paradise (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot: televangelist, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, faith, infidelity, marriage, businessman, reverend, hypocrisy, father son relationship, money, wealth ...
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29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
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Story: Freshmen, seniors and alumni clash with each other, themselves, and the police during an Amsterdam fraternity's epic opening party.
Plot: police, female nudity, prank, lawyer, party, student, abuse, ritual, confrontation, fraternity, swat team, mockery ...
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29%
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