Movies like The Trial of the Chicago 7

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
 7.7
 192K
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest — including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale — were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.
Style: political, factual, suspense, historical drama, thought provoking, serious, motivational, funny, philosophical, social ...
Audience: adult
Plot: courtroom drama, activist, hippie, injustice, riot, political repression, political protest, courtroom, jury, political persecution, court, legal, law, protest, dictator, conflict, dictatorship, black, politician, fighting the system, protestant, political prisoner, political unrest, protestor, political activist ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 2020s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1994 ...
Place: chicago, washington d.c., mississippi, connecticut, ohio, oakland california, mississippi river
Keyword: challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out political, serious, thought provoking and realistic films with plots about politics, murder, lawyer, biopic, justice, husband wife relationship and society mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Trial of the Chicago 7: Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Selma (2014), Dark Waters (2019), Marshall (2017), JFK (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Style: political, inspirational, philosophical, social, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: violence, civil rights, betrayal, politics, murder, prison, black history, black, african american, racism, justice, betrayal by friend ...
Time: 2020s, year 1968, 60s
Place: chicago, hawaii, nebraska, new haven connecticut
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100%
 7.5
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Selma (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights ...
Style: political, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: racism, civil rights, politics, civil rights movement, african american, justice, biopic, racial discrimination, discrimination, idealism, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time: 60s, year 2014, 20th century, 2010s, year 1964 ...
Place: alabama, indiana, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dark Waters (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against the DuPont chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Style: serious, realistic, factual, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, contamination, lawsuit, corruption, environmental, fighting the system, legal investigation, corporate crime, price of justice, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 2019, 2000s, 70s ...
Place: cincinnati ohio, ohio, columbus ohio, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Marshall (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: lawyer, court, racism, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, trial, jury, african american protagonist, courtroom drama, black history ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1967, year 1954
Place: new york, connecticut, philadelphia, maryland, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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JFK (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Style: controversial, suspense, political, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, president, kennedy assassination, political conspiracy, conspiracy theory, assassination, cia, legal, politics, courtroom, lawyer, corruption ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, year 1963
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., austin texas, midwest, chile ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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A Few Good Men (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, realistic, tricky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, military, trial, army investigation, justice, u.s. navy, court martial, suicide, marines, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., cuba, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Conspirator (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Style: political, period piece, factual, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, civil war, president, assassination, legal, historical character, politics, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 1860s, year 1865
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 92K
Amsterdam (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.
Style: dramatic, captivating, stylized, tense, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, corpse, friendship, nurse, lawyer, friend, doctor, death, friends, real life, experiment ...
Time: 1930s, 2020s, year 1933, year 1918, year 1919 ...
Place: usa, belgium, france, new york, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Detroit (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style: suspense, hood, social, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: racism, murder, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, police, riot, trial, violence, fear, motel, african american ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, year 2017, 2010s, year 1969 ...
Place: michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 82K
Miss Sloane (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Style: political, suspense, clever, tense, intellectual ...
Plot: twists and turns, politics, lobbyist, career woman, courtroom, determination, lawyer, female protagonist, strong female lead, world politics, strong female character, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., maryland, chicago, charleston south carolina, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style: suspense, political, disturbing, realistic, political thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, small town, civil rights, african american, police, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, deep south, racial slur, discrimination, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1988, year 1964
Place: mississippi, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Punishment Park (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in ...
Style: mockumentary, political, realistic, philosophical, slasher ...
Plot: found footage, politics, hippie, anarchist, military, distopia, murder, anti war, counterculture, dystopian future, desert, soldier ...
Time: distant future, year 1971, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, indochina, california, washington d.c., glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.6
 326K
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, intense, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cold war, lawyer, espionage, spy, cia, justice, courtroom, court, trial, berlin wall, soviet spy, negotiation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 50s, 60s ...
Place: east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
 23K
Salvador (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Style: suspense, political, tense, factual, harsh ...
Plot: civil war, photojournalist, journalism, revolution, dictator, politics, war correspondent, war, reporter, cold war, dictatorship, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, 70s
Place: latin america, central america, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
All the President's Men (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of ...
Style: political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: journalism, newspaper, investigation, politics, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political corruption, journalist, president, american politics, white house, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1972, year 1973
Place: washington d.c., usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.5
 180K
A Time to Kill (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style: sincere, suspense, serious, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, court, justice, lawyer, courtroom, murder, trial, small town, rape, injustice, revenge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
 26K
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Style: political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: ira, rebellion, civil rights, protest, conflict, politics, terrorism, injustice, civil war, ethnic conflict, political unrest, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1972 ...
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
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Thirteen Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style: political, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: cold war, politics, president, political intrigue, un, race against time, diplomacy, nuclear, spy, conspiracy, cuban missile crisis, leadership ...
Time: 60s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, ussr, the philippines, usa, new york ...
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19%
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The Mauritanian (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, prisoner, american politics, brutality, prison, torture, american imperialism, war on terror, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2001, year 2005, year 1990 ...
Place: north africa, jordan, hamburg germany, germany, baltimore ...
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19%
A Dry White Season (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style: talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: racism, lawyer, fighting the system, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, social commentary, women, slavery, children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.0
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Gandhi (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA, South Africa
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ...
Style: epic, spiritual, inspirational, political, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: protest, biopic, idealism, life philosophy, politics, independence, freedom, british empire, leadership, human spirit, religious intolerance, indian history ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1940s ...
Place: india, south africa, britain, los angeles, new delhi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Z (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style: political, political thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, military, police, government, right wing, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, political corruption, justice, protest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style: political thriller, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Battle in Seattle (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a ...
Style: political, intellectual, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: politics, protest, fighting the system, idealism, police brutality, freedom, political unrest, state affairs, hopes, rebelliousness, chaos and mayhem, resistance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
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LBJ (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Style: political, serious, suspense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: civil rights, u.s. president, politics, biopic, husband wife relationship, society, american politics, campaign, candidate, election, john f. kennedy, white supremacy ...
Time: year 1960, 60s, year 1959, year 1968, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., georgia, west virginia, dallas texas, wyoming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 11K
Catch a Fire (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style: tense, political, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, racism, politics, rebellion, fighting the system, apartheid, police brutality, civil rights, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1980, year 1991 ...
Place: south africa, africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.7
 101K
Malcolm X (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left ...
Style: inspirational, political, factual, intense, stylized ...
Plot: civil rights, racism, politics, african american, black history, civil rights movement, assassination, biopic, islam, childhood, society, prison ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: usa, africa, new york, nebraska, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.8
 179K
The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: political, suspense, cerebral, fast paced, intense ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, courtroom, corruption, reporter, politics, journalist, business, conspiracy, lawyer, legal, media ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, washington d.c., kentucky, south carolina, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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