20 movies like China Clipper, ordered by similarity : The Noose(1928), Devi(1960), Babbitt(1934), The Living and the Dead(2006), The Definition of Insanity(2004), Walking Out(2017), Sorry We Missed You(2019), First Man(2018), Violent Saturday(1955), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles(2005), Neerja(2016), The Holy Innocents(1984) ...
Drama
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Ross Alexander Beverly Roberts Humphrey Bogart Marie Wilson Henry B. Walthall Joseph Crehan Joe King Addison Richards Ruth Robinson Wayne Morris
engineer entrepreneur business partner aviator wife father gripping thrilling inspiring washington, d.c. new york city airplane honolulu cuba father/son relationship husband/wife relationship business aviation aspirations work vs. family
Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.
Drama
USA
1928
75 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Montagu Love Robert E. O'Connor Jay Eaton Lina Basquette Thelma Todd Ed Brady Fred Warren William B. Davidson Alice Joyce William Walling
blackmailer governor wife mother son father melodramatic shocking tense suspenseful death row city cabaret prison murder capital punishment blackmail father/son relationship crime family
A crook blackmails a governor because of knowing his wife's dark past.
Drama
India
1960
98 Minutes
Sharmila Tagore Soumitra Chatterjee Chhabi Biswas Purnendu Mukherjee Karuna Bannerjee Arpan Chowdhury Anil Chatterjee Kali Sarkar Mohammed Israil Khagesh Chakravarti Santa Devi
husband wife father brother nephew sick person solemn touching sad tender rural community family home front porch india healing reincarnation mental illness father/son relationship crisis of faith family
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Drama
USA
1934
74 Minutes
Guy Kibbee Aline MacMahon Claire Dodd Maxine Doyle Glen Boles Minna Gombell Alan Hale Berton Churchill Russell Hicks Nan Gray Arthur Aylesworth
husband father businessman wife child gripping somber profound united states small town business money morality family consumerism high society temptation wretched excess transformation 20th century
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a ... See full summary »
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
2006
83 Minutes
Roger Lloyd-Pack Leo Bill Kate Fahy Sarah Ball Neil Conrich Richard Wills-Cotton Alan Perrin Richard Syms
husband wife son nurse aristocrat father emotional tense frightening england countryside estate family dysfunction mental disability illness aristocracy financial troubles father/son relationship sacrifice discovery
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA|Switzerland
2004
81 Minutes
Robert Margolis Kelli Barnett Frank Krias Derek Johnson Bruce Levy Jonas Mekas John Greiner
actor husband wife son father mother spirited emotional new york city apartment aspirations acting marriage family disillusionment underdog 2000s
Robert is an actor who may or may not be himself in this film about acting, aging and the dark side of ambition. Filmed over the course of 18 months, as a documentary crew follows Robert ... See full summary »
Adventure, Drama
USA
2017
95 Minutes
Matt Bomer Andrew J. Smith Josh Wiggins Bill Pullman Alex Neustaedter Lily Gladstone Ken White
father son grandfather bear brutal eerie gripping inspiring tense united states montana house woods mountain survival father/son relationship growing up journey adventure discovery
An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. Father and son struggle to connect, until a brutal encounter in the heart of the wilderness changes everything.
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2019
100 Minutes
Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Mark Birch Alfie Dobson Charlie Richmond
entrepreneur employee father wife husband mother child boss bleak brooding dark disheartening emotional gritty melancholy moving profound raw sad solemn
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
USA|Japan
2018
141 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Claire Foy Jason Clarke Kyle Chandler Corey Stoll Patrick Fugit Christopher Abbott Ciarán Hinds Olivia Hamilton Pablo Schreiber Shea Whigham
neil armstrong astronaut wife son engineer test pilot thrilling intense confident inspiring moon florida space center space shuttle family home spaceship moon space exploration space travel life story
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
91 Minutes
Victor Mature Richard Egan Stephen McNally Virginia Leith Tommy Noonan Lee Marvin Margaret Hayes J. Carrol Naish Sylvia Sidney Ernest Borgnine Dorothy Patrick
criminal father son husband wife farmer dark emotional small town mine bank household farm arizona bank heist voyeurism father/son relationship infidelity hostage situation violence
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Drama
China|Japan|Hong Kong
2005
107 Minutes
Ken Takakura Shinobu Terajima Kiichi Nakai Qiu Lin Yang Zhenbo Ken Nakamoto
fisherman son wife singer father moving dark tokyo mountain village hospital family illness father/son relationship friendship movie making redemption discovery sacrifice quest
A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
young woman mother father terrorist passenger gripping thrilling intense powerful inspiring india city house airplane bedroom cockpit chasing dreams ambition abusive marriage hijacking
Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Drama
1984
105 Minutes
Alfredo Landa Francisco Rabal Terele Pavez Ágata Lys Agustín González Juan Diego
aristocrat peasant father son daughter wife powerful brooding spain estate plantation household family poverty pride class struggle sacrifice underdog wretched excess rivalry
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
76 Minutes
William Powell Jean Arthur Kay Francis Regis Toomey Stanley Fields Brooks Benedict
husband wife gambler criminal thug brother melodramatic dark gripping new york city gambling house gambling crime redemption family brotherhood husband/wife relationship escape transformation sacrifice
A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson James Stewart Rose Stradner Lionel Stander Douglas Scott John Carradine Sidney Blackmer Grant Mitchell
gangster wife reporter henchman brother son melodramatic gripping spirited new york city alcatraz island newsroom household street organized crime murder father/son relationship marriage kidnapping imprisonment
A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
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.
Drama
France
2001
134 Minutes
Aurélien Recoing Karin Viard Serge Livrozet Jean-Pierre Mangeot Monique Mangeot Nicolas Kalsch Marie Cantet Felix Cantet Maxime Sassier Nigel Palmer Christophe Charles
unemployed person businessman wife son father bleak gripping geneva car apartment family home france unemployment lie money family fear investment fall wretched excess
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Drama
2008
88 Minutes
Josh Hartnett Naomie Harris Adam Scott Robin Tunney Andre Royo Emmanuelle Chriqui David Bowie Rip Torn Caroline Lagerfelt
business owner son brother investor girlfriend entrepreneur melodramatic gripping thrilling confident engaging new york city club apartment office city apartment street father/son relationship brother relationship dot-com bubble
The co-founder (Josh Hartnett) of an Internet company tries to win back his lover (Naomie Harris), while his business teeters on the brink of disaster.
Drama
USA
1999
157 Minutes
Al Pacino Russell Crowe Christopher Plummer Diane Venora Philip Baker Hall Lindsay Crouse Debi Mazar Stephen Tobolowsky Colm Feore Bruce McGill Gina Gershon
television producer scientist lawyer executive wife thrilling powerful dark office household courtroom kentucky mississippi new york city big business news deception tobacco family quest
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Biography, Drama, Music
USA
2018
110 Minutes
J. Michael Finley Madeline Carroll Dennis Quaid Trace Adkins Cloris Leachman Jason Burkey Mark Furze Randy McDowell Cole Marcus Alexander Dominguez Brody Rose
musician father son band member teacher friend incredible inspiring heartwarming emotional creative tense texas stage recording studio house auditorium coming of age family father/son relationship
The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.