20 movies like The Revolutionary, ordered by similarity : Trainspotting(1996), A Single Man(2009), Hotel Mumbai(2018), True Heart Susie(1919), Aakrosh(2010), Ash Is Purest White(2018), Ladies of Leisure(1930), Cheers for Miss Bishop(1941), Critical Thinking(2020), What Richard Did(2012), Burning Sands(2017), Of Human Bondage(1934) ...
Drama
USA
1970
100 Minutes
Jon Voight Jennifer Salt Seymour Cassel Robert Duvall Collin Wilcox Paxton Elliott Sullivan Warren Stanhope
college student political boss radical girlfriend hippie terrorist fiery passionate uneasy melodramatic united kingdom printing plant apartment street political unrest student radicals labor strike terrorism draft mentorship
A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
94 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch
drug addict friend student girlfriend drug dealer sociopath amusing dark gritty edinburgh london household apartment pub hotel addiction abandonment friendship crime death
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2009
99 Minutes
Colin Firth Julianne Moore Nicholas Hoult Matthew Goode Jon Kortajarena Paulette Lamori Ryan Simpkins Ginnifer Goodwin Teddy Sears Aaron Sanders Lee Pace
professor homosexual lover student friend male prostitute brooding emotional profound cheeky suburb house college beach gas station suicide grief friendship homosexuality teaching
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Australia|USA|UK|India|Singapore
2018
125 Minutes
Armie Hammer Dev Patel Nazanin Boniadi Tilda Cobham-Hervey Anupam Kher Jason Isaacs Alex Pinder Amandeep Singh Suhail Nayyar Natasha Liu Bordizzo Yash Trivedi
couple militant terrorist chef baby husband intense gripping frightening uneasy brutal mumbai hotel kitchen apartment hotel room pakistan terrorism historical events murder
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1919
87 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Loyola O'Connor Wilbur Higby Clarine Seymour Kate Bruce Raymond Cannon
farm girl minister student temptress aunt father melodramatic tender passionate touching farm college family home rural community countryside secrets infidelity unrequited love small-town life death
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2010
155 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Akshaye Khanna Bipasha Basu Paresh Rawal Reema Sen Amita Pathak
minister student friend police officers gripping intense powerful sad emotional india house college hospital police station murder suicide police work class conflict class distinctions rise
The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.
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.
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
USA
1941
95 Minutes
Martha Scott William Gargan Edmund Gwenn Sterling Holloway Sidney Blackmer Mary Anderson Dorothy Peterson
teacher suitor friend student emotional melodramatic small town college nebraska teaching romance friendship aspirations transformation love discovery sacrifice 1930s
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
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
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.
Drama
USA
2017
96 Minutes
Trevor Jackson Alfre Woodard Steve Harris Tosin Cole DeRon Horton Trevante Rhodes Serayah Imani Hakim Octavius J. Johnson Rotimi Nafessa Williams
black student college student frat boy college dean professor bleak chilling dark gripping fast food restaurant car apartment college fraternity house oppression fraternity college humiliation escape fall
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Drama
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Leslie Howard Bette Davis Frances Dee Kay Johnson Reginald Denny Alan Hale Reginald Owen
student waitress friend daughter bleak intense passionate london café apartment paris obsession abuse infidelity unrequited love aspirations love temptation fall 1930s
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
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
USA
1967
86 Minutes
Richard Todd James MacArthur Susan Oliver Mark Goddard Carol Booth Mark Cavell Janee Michelle Ronnie Eckstine Michael Evans Hortense Petra Jimmy Lloyd
professor student guru hippie musician tv personality outlandish cheeky dark offbeat san francisco apartment college studio arena california anti-establishment subculture media circus cult
A college professor resigns in protest to the dismissal of student underground newspaper workers and later joins their "hippie movement" and becomes their "Messiah."
Drama
UK
1962
112 Minutes
Alan Bates June Ritchie Thora Hird Bert Palmer Gwen Nelson Malcolm Patton Pat Keen
secretary mother wife mother-in-law draftsman husband somber brooding melodramatic manchester, england factory class distinctions pregnancy miscarriage housing shortage marriage sacrifice transformation 1960s
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Drama
2018
90 Minutes
Anna Maxwell Martin Vicky McClure Daniel Mays David Wilmot Simone Kirby
mother terrorist family victim son gritty powerful tense england city united kingdom terrorism political unrest mother/son relationship mother courage transformation revenge 1990s
Two women living on opposite sides of the Irish Sea are brought together by the Warrington bombing in 1993.
Adventure, Drama
India
1966
120 Minutes
Uttam Kumar Sharmila Tagore Bireswar Sen Somen Bose Premangshu Bose Sumita Sanyal Kamu Mukherjee Ranjit Sen
actor journalist passenger executive wife emotional suspenseful melodramatic train calcutta, india new delhi guilt regret fame trust confession depression discovery transformation sacrifice
En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams and past experiences.
Drama
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Errol Flynn Bette Davis Anita Louise Jane Bryan Ian Hunter Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Donald Crisp Dick Foran Patric Knowles Alan Hale
secretary sportswriter father sister fiancé millionaire melodramatic intense gripping montana san francisco apartment office ship sister relationship marriage ambition drinking earthquakes reconciliation
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Drama
France|Poland|Switzerland
1993
97 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Benoît Régent Florence Pernel Hélène Vincent Philippe Volter Hugues Quester Emmanuelle Riva Julie Delpy Zbigniew Zamachowski Alain Decaux
widow friend exotic dancer mother journalist mistress touching dreamy sad passionate paris apartment nursing home hospital street france grief death starting over secrets
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.