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Movies Like This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings

If you liked This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings (1971), a drama movie directed by Alessandro Santini, 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. 1The Words

    The Words (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…

  2. 2Pitfall

    Pitfall (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

  3. 3The Player

    The Player (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

  4. 4The Crush

    The Crush (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

  5. 5Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  6. 6Derailed

    Derailed (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

  7. 7The Big Knife

    The Big Knife (1955)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While…

  8. 8A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  9. 9Guilty by Suspicion

    Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.

  10. 10Blue Chips

    Blue Chips (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the…

  11. 11Trumbo

    Trumbo (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

  12. 12Blackmail

    Blackmail (1929)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and…

  13. 13Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…

  14. 14Following

    Following (1999)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious…

  15. 15The Sense of an Ending

    The Sense of an Ending (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

  16. 16Heist

    Heist (2001)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young…

  17. 17Rogue Agent

    Rogue Agent (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

  18. 18The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…

  19. 19The Company You Keep

    The Company You Keep (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

  20. 20Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

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