Movies Like An Act of Confession
If you liked An Act of Confession (1972), a drama movie directed by Anthony Spinelli, 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.
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaFashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
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I Walk the Line (1970)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaHenry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the…
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men…
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Flesh + Blood (1985)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a…
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Farming (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaBased on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of…
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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Crash (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaIn the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.
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Convict (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaSet in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…
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Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaA chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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Cheaters (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
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The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaVeteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…
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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaSeal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
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The Boys of St. Vincent (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Shame (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaBrandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up…
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Suburbia (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them…
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Jawbone (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…