Movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

20 movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ordered by similarity : Sling Blade(1996), Ford v Ferrari(2019), The Gentlemen(2020), The Ugly American(1963), It Happened Here(1964), Pirate Radio(2009), Apocalypse Now Redux(1979), Persona(1966), Family Life(1971), Scarred Hearts(2016), Hostiles(2017), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner(1962) ...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

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Sling Blade

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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Ford v Ferrari

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.

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The Gentlemen

An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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The Ugly American

An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.

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It Happened Here

A British nurse (Pauline Murray) joins the underground after a supposed Nazi takeover of England in 1943.

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Pirate Radio

A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.

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Apocalypse Now Redux

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

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Persona

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

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Family Life

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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Hostiles

In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

A juvenile offender (Sir Tom Courtenay) at a tough reform school impresses its Governor (Sir Michael Redgrave) with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

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The Siege of Firebase Gloria

A tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase and proceed to rebuild morale and fortifications in advance of the climactic battle with the VietCong.

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Oldboys

Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their ... See full summary »

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Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.

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A City of Sadness

A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.

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The Snake Pit

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

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Antony and Cleopatra

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.

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Red Desert

In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.

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