20 movies like The Informer, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Fat City(1972), The Deer Hunter(1978), What Richard Did(2012), Lone Survivor(2013), Ladies of Leisure(1930), Algiers(1938), Shake Hands With the Devil(1959), Kanal(1957), Diary of a Lost Girl(1929), Ash Is Purest White(2018), Timbuktu(2014) ...
Drama
USA
1935
91 Minutes
Victor McLaglen Heather Angel Preston Foster Margot Grahame Wallace Ford Una O'Connor Joe Sawyer
drunk soldier terrorist prostitute bleak disheartening intense dark ireland dublin friendship guilt alcoholism patriotism betrayal sacrifice pursuit 1920s
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Drama
USA
1972
96 Minutes
Stacy Keach Jeff Bridges Susan Tyrrell Candy Clark Nicholas Colasanto Art Aragon Curtis Cokes Sixto Rodriguez Billy Walker Wayne Mahan Ruben Navarro
boxer trainer friend girlfriend gritty dark bleak california gym bar comeback boxing redemption alcoholism friendship aging pursuit rivalry underdog fall
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Drama
Ireland
2012
87 Minutes
Jack Reynor Roisin Murphy Sam Keeley Gavin Drea Fionn Walton Lars Mikkelsen Lorraine Pilkington Padraic Delaney Patrick Gibson Liana O'Cleirigh Rachel Gleeson
teen boy teen girl athlete student family bleak brooding brutal chilling dark dense intense raw uneasy ireland dublin coming of age life lessons fighting teen angst
A promising young man about to start university suddenly throws his life into uncertainty when he accidentally commits a serious crime.
War, Drama
USA|UK
2013
121 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Taylor Kitsch Eric Bana Emile Hirsch Ben Foster Sammy Sheik Yousuf Azami Ali Suliman
navy seal soldier afghan terrorist warlord survivor bleak frenetic dark intense suspenseful afghanistan field desert battlefield betrayal determination surveillance shoot-out war
Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
98 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Ralph Graves Marie Prevost Lowell Sherman Nance O'Neil George Fawcett
artist prostitute friend father mother roommate melodramatic cheeky mushy new york city apartment studio staircase ship class conflict romance family art attempted suicide wealth
An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
95 Minutes
Charles Boyer Hedy Lamarr Sigrid Gurie Joseph Calleia Alan Hale Gene Lockhart Johnny Downs
thief inspector police chief petty criminal woman friend sultry dark intricate moving casbah algiers, algeria police station street docks manhunt jealousy friendship obsession escape
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
Drama
Ireland|USA
1959
110 Minutes
James Cagney Don Murray Dana Wynter Glynis Johns Michael Redgrave Sybil Thorndike Marianne Benet John Breslin Harry Brogan Robert Brown Lewis Casson
professor student woman smuggler poet terrorist tense emotional ireland dublin college pub farm hostage situation moral dilemma political repression irish republican army nationalism torture sacrifice
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Drama
Poland
1957
96 Minutes
Teresa Izewska Tadeusz Janczar Wisczyslaw Glinski Emil Karewicz Vladek Sheybal Tadeusz Gwiazdowski Stanislaw Mikulski
resistance fighter nazi soldier bleak chilling dark tense powerful raw warsaw, poland sewer battlefield world war ii uprising destruction trapped struggle sacrifice fall underdog
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
Drama
Germany
1929
96 Minutes
Louise Brooks Fritz Rasp Josef Rovenský Sybille Schmitz Valeska Gert Edith Meinhard
young woman chemist assistant mother director friend dark tense profound germany pharmacy apartment reform school brothel mansion rape prostitution father/daughter relationship friendship redemption
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Romance, Drama
2018
141 Minutes
Zhao Tao Liao Fan Feng Xiaogang Diao Yi-nan Zheng Xu Zhang Yibai
gang leader girlfriend gang members boyfriend ex-girlfriend bleak cool disheartening gripping intense uneasy china sacrifice gangsters relationships china chinese triad fall sacrifice 2010s
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Drama
Mauritania|France|Qatar
2014
97 Minutes
Ibrahim Ahmed Toulou Kiki Abel Jafri Fatoumata Diawara Hichem Yacoubi Kettly Noël Mehdi A.G. Mohamed Layla Walet Mohamed Adel Mahmoud Cherif Salem Dendou
father daughter family militant terrorist community member brutal chilling emotional fascinating gripping gritty intense moving raw sad tense timbuktu, mali rural community desert
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Drama
Japan|Netherlands|Hong Kong
2008
119 Minutes
Teruyuki Kagawa Kyôko Koizumi Kai Inowaki Haruka Igawa Yû Koyanagi Jason Gray Kanji Tsuda Kazuya Kojima
father mother son friend boss unemployed person bleak tense powerful tokyo house employment office cafeteria loss of job marital problems family guilt deception outsourcing discovery
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Drama
USA
2010
99 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence John Hawkes Kevin Breznahan Dale Dickey Garret Dillahunt Sheryl Lee Lauren Sweetser Tate Taylor
daughter family brother father sheriff lawman bleak dark gritty suspenseful the ozarks arkansas rural community abandonment family dysfunction poverty drug trade conspiracy darkness sacrifice
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Comedy, Drama
USA|Greece
2015
89 Minutes
Elisabeth Moss Katherine Waterston Patrick Fugit Kentucker Audley Keith Poulson Kate Lyn Sheil Craig Butta Daniel April
friend woman man love interest eerie bleak tense thrilling new york united states friendship betrayal danger dangerous romance threats mystery 21st century
Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2017
80 Minutes
Ana Asensio Natasha Romanova David Little Nicholas Tucci Larry Fessenden Caprice Benedetti Anna Myrha Ami Sheth Miriam A. Hyman Sara Visser Natalia Zvereva
illegal immigrant young woman bleak brooding emotional moving intense suspenseful new york city united states survival redemption struggle danger illegal immigration illicit business darkness dark secrets sacrifice underdog
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Drama, War
USA|Bulgaria
2020
123 Minutes
Scott Eastwood Caleb Landry Jones Orlando Bloom Jack Kesy Cory Hardrict Milo Gibson Jacob Scipio Taylor John Smith Jonathan Yunger Celina Sinden Alexander Arnold
american soldier terrorist army officer enemy intense suspenseful engaging unrestrained confident afghanistan valley battlefield afghanistan war taliban war fight to the death rivalry sacrifice pursuit 2000s
A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Drama
1942
96 Minutes
Leslie Banks Mervyn Johns Marie Lohr C.V. France Valerie Taylor Basil Sydney
villager soldiers german german officer german soldier thrilling tense suspenseful village small town england trust captivity disguise soldiers british life world war ii rivalry sacrifice 1940s
Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Drama
USA
2014
110 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Michael Shannon Laura Dern Tim Guinee Noah Lomax Clancy Brown J.D. Evermore Judd Lormand Cullen Moss John L. Armijo Nicole Barré
businessman single father contractor unemployed person man tenant bleak dark gripping intense thrilling disheartening abandoned house united states florida house suburb road unemployment eviction
A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
Drama
USA|UK|France
2006
111 Minutes
David Alan Basche Richard Bekins Susan Blommaert Ray Charleson Christian Clemenson Khalid Abdalla Lewis Alsamari Gregg Henry Peter Hermann Denny Dillon David Rasche
terrorist hostage passenger crew member loved one air traffic controller emotional intense tense dark frightening airplane airport hotel united states sept. 11th teamwork hijacking death daunting task
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.