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Movies Like In Country

If you liked In Country (1989), a drama movie directed by Norman Jewison, 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. 1Unbroken: Path to Redemption

    Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to…

  2. 2The War

    The War (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.

  3. 3Dad

    Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…

  4. 4What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…

  5. 5Running on Empty

    Running on Empty (1988)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then…

  6. 6F.I.S.T.

    F.I.S.T. (1978)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts…

  7. 7Wonderstruck

    Wonderstruck (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

  8. 8Fences

    Fences (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

  9. 9Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

  10. 10Where'd You Go, Bernadette

    Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.

  11. 11The Best of Enemies

    The Best of Enemies (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation…

  12. 12Rescue Dawn

    Rescue Dawn (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

  13. 13The Long, Hot Summer

    The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

  14. 14Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…

  15. 15Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  16. 16The Hours

    The Hours (2002)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together…

  17. 17House of Strangers

    House of Strangers (1949)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business…

  18. 18The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  19. 19Richard Jewell

    Richard Jewell (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…

  20. 20The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

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