Independence day movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant independence day movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, humorous, cult classic, psychotronic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with independence day, fourth of july, danger, fireworks, family relations, heroes, coming of age, violence, dog and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Action and Comedy genres shot in USA, Finland, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as independence day: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Re-Elected (2020), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Luce (2019), Detective Knight: Independence (2023), Vengeance: A Love Story (2017), The Patriot (2000), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Bull Durham (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989).

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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, suspense, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, end of the world, disaster, human versus alien, apocalypse, space travel, ufo, president, independence day, monster, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, london, tower bridge london, minnesota ...
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Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup, Scamp, gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family, and longs for a wild and free lifestyle. He runs away from home and into the streets where he joins a pack of stray dogs known ...
Style: sweet, semi serious, feel good, humorous, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: cartoon dog, dog, pets, puppy, dogcatcher, friendship, gang, talking dog, love, animal shelter, independence day, disorder ...
Time: 1910s
Place: new england
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 3.5
 167
Re-Elected (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July.
Style: tense, bleak, scary, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, independence day, pandemic, survival horror, nightmare, dystopian future, heroes, killings, vestiges of humanity, human existence, escapades, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style: factual, disturbing, realistic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: vietnam war, anti war, disability, war, wartime, biopic, fighting the system, military, vietnam veteran, guilt, disabled, injustice ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1989, 50s ...
Place: vietnam, texas, the philippines, usa, new york ...
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 6.6
 15K
Luce (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style: psychological, non-linear, suspense, thought provoking, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: social problems, track and field, cheerleader, african american, interracial, trust, mistrust, public speaking, drunkenness, drinking, independence day, doubt ...
Place: ohio, middle east
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Detective Knight: Independence (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: terror, terrorism, state terrorism, domestic terrorism, independence day, counter terrorism, war on terror, terrorist attack, terrorist group, race against time, terrorist plot, terrorist ...
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Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As Gotham City's young vigilante, the Batman, struggles to pursue a brutal serial killer, district attorney Harvey Dent gets caught in a feud involving the criminal family of the Falcones.
Style: anime, tense, captivating, exciting, perverse ...
Plot: superhero, batman, mother's day, independence day, criminal, murder investigation, organized crime, showdown, good versus evil, murder mystery, fighting crime, murder ...
Time: 2020s
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Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Gulf War veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, rape victim, rape and revenge, vigilante, vengeance, rape, vigilantism, rapist, defense attorney, single mother, revenge, con artists ...
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 7.2
 292K
The Patriot (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style: period piece, dramatic, rough, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: american revolution, war, freedom, revolution, military, battles, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, heroic mission, wartime, combat ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k, 1780s ...
Place: south carolina, america, southern usa, virginia, britain ...
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, hacking, one man army, terrorism, hacker, computer hacker, tough cop, conspiracy, car chase, fbi, lone hero, surveillance ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, maryland, baltimore, los angeles ...
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 7.1
 59K
Bull Durham (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, inspirational, funny, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, small town, coach, love triangle, mentor, relationships, age difference, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, humorous, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: alien, supernatural, teenager, buddies, space and aliens, friends, young heroes, youth, alien encounter, group of friends, teenage life, mind control ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Milo Boyd is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is rather satisfying, as he finds out that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole -- but she has no intention of getting nabbed without a fight. Complicating matters, ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, sexy, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, bounty hunter, love story, love and romance, enemies to lovers, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, escapades, reporter, murder, relationships, marriage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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Attack on Finland (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: hostage, hostage situation, violence, danger, hacking, group of criminals, vengeance, master criminal, society, independence day, terrorist attack, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, balkan, serbia, stockholm sweden, st. petersburg russia ...
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 7.0
 171
Linnan juhlat (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses ...
Style: road movie
Plot: road trip, lapland, independence day, philosopher, runaway bride, helsinki, finland, class differences, writer's block, car trouble, philosophy, taxi driver, winter ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: finland
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 7.2
 7K
Avalon (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, cult classic, semi autobiographical, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: thanksgiving, immigrant, culture clash, american history, immigration, children, hospital, nostalgia, intrigue, culture, migration, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, lust, erotica, family relations, secret relationship, sex in car ...
Time: 60s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, woodstock, new york state
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 2.8
 238
Face of Evil (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense
Plot: zombie, epidemic, infection, survival horror, pandemic, characters in danger, soldier, violence, plague, zombie apocalypse, survival, walking dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.7
 307
August 15 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Story: The film is a sequel to the 1988 film August 1, which was directed by Sibi Malayil, and written by S. N. Swamy. Following from August 1, Mammootty plays the character of the Crime Branch officer Perumal who investigates into an attempt of ...
Plot: police, assassin, independence day, hitman, telephone call, priest
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Wonder Woman comes into conflict with the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the 1980s and finds a formidable foe by the name of the Cheetah.
Style: intense, entertaining, suspense, emotional, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: female protagonist, superhero, female warrior, superheroine, woman fights a man, female fighter, heroes, amazon, super powers, amazon tribe, wonder woman, superhuman powers ...
Time: 2020s, 80s, year 1984
Place: hawaii, los angeles, washington d.c., russia, egypt ...
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 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
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 6.3
 80K
Dark Skies (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, creepy, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, alien, alien abduction, danger, extraterrestrial, ufo, bird, disorder, paranormal activity, abduction, family in danger, alien invasion ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 215K
Cape Fear (1991)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rape, fear, lawyer, family in danger, psychology, violence, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, prison, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: north carolina, georgia, florida, usa
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, family relations, isolation, parent child relationship, human nature, misfit, love and romance, parents and children, teenage crush, unfulfillment, fall in love, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: holiday, stop motion, christmas, xmas, christmas season, reindeer, winter, christmas wish, christmas spirit, circus, curses spells and rituals, disorder ...
Time: 70s
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Washington Square (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, stylized, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, american history, gilded age, couple relations, love and romance, feminist, marriage, gay, amor, asexual ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1850s
Place: america, new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city ...
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The Spirit of '76 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to ...
Style: psychotronic, surreal, independent film, spoof, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, disco, summer, time loop, time warp, time machine, fish out of water, profanity, silly humor, imaginary, heroes, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976, future, 22nd century ...
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 5.5
 2K
Russkies (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.
Style: epic, independent film, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: cold war, friendship, submarine, coming of age, youth, teenager, manhunt, shipwreck, danger, young heroes, misfit, space and aliens ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: russia, usa, florida
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 4.7
 61K
Jonah Hex (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting ...
Style: stylized, gothic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: bounty hunter, comic book, civil war, revenge, american civil war, supernatural, death, superhero, gunslinger, vengeance, one against many, cowboy ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1870s
Place: usa, virginia, charleston south carolina, arizona, georgia ...
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