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Movies Like Pressure Burst

If you liked Pressure Burst (1971), a movie directed by George Canes, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Skin

    Skin (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  2. 2Sarafina!

    Sarafina! (1992)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.

  3. 3Zulu

    Zulu (1964)

    ★ 7.4/10

    In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

  4. 4London Calling

    London Calling (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man.

  5. 5Silverton Siege

    Silverton Siege (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.

  6. 6Shepherds and Butchers

    Shepherds and Butchers (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

  7. 7Faith Like Potatoes

    Faith Like Potatoes (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to…

  8. 8Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  9. 9Army of Thieves

    Army of Thieves (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.

  10. 10Black Caesar

    Black Caesar (1973)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.

  11. 11The Bang Bang Club

    The Bang Bang Club (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense…

  12. 12Breaker Morant

    Breaker Morant (1980)

    ★ 7.1/10

    During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from…

  13. 13They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  14. 14Disgrace

    Disgrace (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…

  15. 15The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E. Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links…

  16. 16They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  17. 17Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  18. 18Maternal Instinct

    Maternal Instinct (2026)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Police pull over a woman who claims she just gave birth. But the baby — and the blood — aren't hers. Twisted lies unravel in this true-crime documentary.

  19. 19Their Finest

    Their Finest (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook…

  20. 20Bride & Prejudice

    Bride & Prejudice (2004)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

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