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Plot Summary:
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: inspirational, smart, freeze frame, psychological, thought provoking, heartbreaking, political, social, witty, art house
Best tv shows and movies like Molly's Game (2017):
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Miss Sloane (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, clever, tense, intellectual, factual, suspenseful, entertaining, thought provoking, feel good
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I, Tonya (2017)
Plot Summary:
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, rough, humorous, twisted, ironic, absurd, motivational, retro
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Plot Summary:
When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, funny, intellectual, serious, novela, powerful, period piece
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The Bling Ring (2013)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, teen, dark comedy, absurd, independent film, thought provoking, neo noir, social, artsy
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White Boy Rick (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough, neo noir, sad, independent film, non fiction, anamorphic
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The Judge (2014)
Plot Summary:
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 199000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sad, motivational, inspirational, sincere
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Saint Judy (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, factual
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Rounders (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious, talky, rough, feel good, independent film, inspirational
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Two for the Money (2005)
Plot Summary:
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, inspirational, light, neo noir, cult classic, realistic
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Capote (2005)
Plot Summary:
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: intellectual, captivating, dark, dramatic, talky, psychological, historical drama, atmospheric, inspirational, retro
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Raging Bull (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 373000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: black and white, stylized, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking, bloody, visual, harsh, neo noir, poignant
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak, teen, disturbing, depressing, brutal, talky
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Richard Jewell (2019)
Plot Summary:
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, sad, realistic, factual, emotional, suspense, historical drama, touching, depressing
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Find Me Guilty (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, stylized, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious, inspirational, social, novela
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Just Mercy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, inspirational, enigmatic, motivational, emotional, educational
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Conviction (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, sad, thought provoking, disturbing, intense, motivational, entertaining
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The Hurricane (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, inspirational, factual, motivational, epic, political, twisted, sincere, uplifting
Similar in 76%
Joy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: inspirational, stylized, emotional, sentimental, intense, serious, realistic, feel good, motivational, clever
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Moneyball (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 455000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, realistic, captivating, motivational, clever, serious, suspense, intelligent, witty
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Argentina, 1985 (2022)
Plot Summary:
In a David-vs-Goliath battle and under constant threat, Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to bring justice to the victims of the Military Junta.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Argentina, UK, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: iconic
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The Untouchables (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 326000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, rough, neo noir
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Spotlight (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 494000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: factual, emotional, suspense, thought provoking, psychological, tense, talky, political, intellectual, intense
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Kill the Irishman (2011)
Plot Summary:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, suspense, talky, intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, thought provoking
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War Dogs (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, intense, suspense, factual, clever, political, hilarious, ambiguous ending
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American Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh, hood, clever, detective, suspenseful, entertaining
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Freedom Writers (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, rough, motivational, hood, emotional, educational, spiritual
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: political, sentimental, inspirational, touching, dramatic, factual, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, realistic
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The Social Network (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 745000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: intellectual, clever, realistic, motivational, entertaining, witty, inspirational, visually appealing, serious, informative
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Plot Summary:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15000000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, biting, cerebral, realistic, suspense, funny, entertaining
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Plot Summary:
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: clever, exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining, inspirational, dramatic, intense, informative, light