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Killing Reagan (2016)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
president, conspiracy, assassination of president, usa president, assassination attempt, politics, politician, u.s. president, love story, attempted murder, assassination plot, life, murder, historical figure, murder mystery, political intrigue, political conspiracy, historical character, political unrest, assassination, evil plot, american politics
Time:
80s, year 1981
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, political, tense and disturbing films with plots about politics, assassination, president, murder, political conspiracy, conspiracy and biopic mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Killing Reagan: The Messanger (2010), The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001), The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998), JFK (1991), The Conspirator (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 98 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Duration: 189 min.
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tense, political thriller, controversial, political, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, assassination, kennedy assassination, president, political conspiracy, conspiracy theory, legal, politics, cia, assassination of president, cold war era, courtroom ...
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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:
period piece, thought provoking, political, factual, suspense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
lawyer, civil war, courtroom drama, assassination, politics, president, historical character, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial, court ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Style:
political thriller, political, neo noir, independent film, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, assassination, paranoia, murder, corruption, assassination of president, conspiracy theory, kennedy assassination, cia, intelligence agency, assassin, sniper ...
Time:
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Place:
dallas texas
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74%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, Western
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Duration: 51 min.
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Duration: 127 min.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
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Time:
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Duration: 210 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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