20 movies like Storm Center, ordered by similarity : Erin Brockovich(2000), American Violet(2008), After the Storm(2016), Guilty by Suspicion(1991), The Unknown Man(1951), The Deer Hunter(1978), Just Mercy(2019), Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot(2018), Pink(2016), Anatomy of a Murder(1959), Ash Is Purest White(2018), Peyton Place(1957) ...
Drama
USA
1956
85 Minutes
Bette Davis Brian Keith Kim Hunter Paul Kelly Joe Mantell Kevin Coughlin Sally Brophy Howard Wierum
widow librarian attorney assistant girlfriend townsperson inspiring passionate powerful small town united states library courtroom new england censorship mccarthyism communism ethics betrayal book banning
During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves.
Drama
USA
2000
131 Minutes
Julia Roberts Albert Finney Aaron Eckhart Marg Helgenberger Cherry Jones Veanne Cox Conchata Ferrell Tracey Walter Peter Coyote Scotty Leavenworth Gemmenne de la Peña
attorney single mother businessman judge heroine lawyer powerful inspiring gripping disturbing gritty california office family home courtroom small town law firm corruption betrayal lawsuit
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Drama
USA
2008
102 Minutes
Nicole Beharie Will Patton Alfre Woodard Tim Blake Nelson Michael O'Keefe Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner Charles S. Dutton Malcolm Barrett Tim Ware Paul David Story David Warshofsky
single mother district attorney police officer mother defense attorney narcotics officer inspiring powerful emotional prison courtroom housing project diner church texas fight for justice drug bust wrongfully accused custody battle racism
A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
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.
Drama
USA
1991
105 Minutes
Robert De Niro Annette Bening George Wendt Patricia Wettig Sam Wanamaker Luke Edwards Chris Cooper Ben Piazza Martin Scorsese Barry Primus Gailard Sartain
director wife son friend senator studio head powerful gripping gutsy disheartening hollywood, calif. washington, d.c. film set family home mccarthyism communism loyalty persecution honor sacrifice
David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood Director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
86 Minutes
defense attorney wife district attorney defendant murderer shop owner engaging intricate tense melodramatic united states courtroom prison murder case double jeopardy deception extortion law ethics discovery
An attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations.
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
USA
2019
136 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Jamie Foxx Brie Larson Rob Morgan Tim Blake Nelson Rafe Spall O'Shea Jackson Jr. Karan Kendrick Drew Scheid Steve Coulter Mary Kraft
defense attorney death row inmate wrongly accused emotional disheartening passionate powerful alabama courtroom prison death row wrongful conviction murder case racism politics rescue quest underdog fall discovery
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Comedy, Biography, Drama
France|USA
2018
113 Minutes
Joaquin Phoenix Jonah Hill Rooney Mara Jack Black Carrie Brownstein Beth Ditto Kim Gordon Udo Kier
handicapped person alcoholic artist friend girlfriend family member inspiring intense emotional powerful quirky witty portland, ore. house doctor's office ambulance street strip club artistic struggle therapy
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
2016
136 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Tapsee Pannu Piyush Mishra Kirti Kulhari Dhritiman Chatterjee Andrea Tariang Angad Bedi
young man young woman lawyer friend gripping intense powerful inspiring house bungalow resort courtroom rape court battles legal case quest pursuit rise fall 2010s
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1959
160 Minutes
James Stewart Lee Remick Ben Gazzara Arthur O'Connell Eve Arden Kathryn Grant Joseph N. Welch Brooks West George C. Scott Murray Hamilton Orson Bean
attorney soldier prosecutor wife business partner district attorney gripping intense courtroom michigan small town hotel murder trial rape secret anger fear mystery quest
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
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
USA
1957
157 Minutes
Lana Turner Hope Lange Arthur Kennedy Lloyd Nolan Lee Philips Terry Moore Russ Tamblyn Betty Field David Nelson Mildred Dunnock Diane Varsi
stranger widow drunk daughter friend doctor melodramatic passionate intense new england small town forest lake courtroom mother/daughter relationship small-town life sex rape friendship trials
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
Drama
UK
2019
101 Minutes
Annette Bening Bill Nighy Josh O'Connor Aiysha Hart Nicholas Burns Ryan McKen Rose Keegan Nicholas Blane
middle-aged woman husband mistress son emotional melodramatic moving rousing tender seaside great britain town anger grief starting over happiness fall pursuit rise sacrifice
A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
99 Minutes
Aldis Hodge Greg Kinnear Sherri Shepherd Melanie Liburd Tiffany Dupont Gino Vento Xosha Roquemore Mystie Smith Jose Miguel Vasquez Dorian Missick Monique Grant
football player convict wrongly accused police officer assistant district attorney family member inspiring emotional confident moving football field house prison courtroom law office wrongfully accused shattered dreams wrongful conviction imprisonment self-confidence
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Drama
USA
1951
102 Minutes
Dana Andrews Dorothy McGuire Farley Granger Peggy Dow Robert Keith Mildred Dunnock Ray Collins Martin Milner Jim Backus Marjorie Crossland Walter Baldwin
veteran father son mother girlfriend gripping emotional united states household small town disillusionment korean war young love draft ethics sacrifice temptation cold war
In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
Crime, Drama
USA
1986
90 Minutes
Gary McCleery Margaret Klenck John Sayles Martin Donovan John Seitz John Snyder
teen boy prisoner social worker brother judge woman powerful tense emotional passionate tennessee jail florida courtroom store car murder case court battles juvenile crime jailbreak
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Frank Lovejoy Dorothy Hart Philip Carey Richard Webb James Millican Ron Hagerthy Paul Picerni Frank Gerstle Russ Conway Hope Kramer Kasia Orzazekski
undercover agent communist brother woman chief patriotic spirited passionate melodramatic hotel pittsburgh courtroom apartment undercover operations mccarthyism communism paranoia new identity deception sacrifice
In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage boy thinks he's a real Red.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2011
90 Minutes
Bill Pullman Marcia Gay Harden Alfred Molina Richard Schiff Callard Harris Mariana Klaveno Tahmoh Penikett
judge son wife tense disturbing dark bleak courtroom house town illinois trial murder affair father/son relationship fall mystery 2010s
After a judge (Bill Pullman) is accused of murdering his wife, an affair from his past threatens to destroy his defense.
Drama
UK|France|Germany|USA
1990
97 Minutes
Andre Braugher Ruby Dee Stan Shaw Daniel Stern Kasi Lemmons J.A. Preston Steven Williams Bruce Dern
army officer african-american baseball player mother attorney joe louis passionate rousing inspiring emotional fort hood, texas army base courtroom bus jackie robinson segregation court-martial racism military life family
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.