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.
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The Words (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe 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…
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Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAn 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.
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The Player (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Heatwave (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA 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.
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Derailed (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaWhen 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.
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The Big Knife (1955)
★ 6/10Also dramaMovie 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…
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaMillionaire 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…
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Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaOwing 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.
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Blue Chips (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaPete 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…
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Trumbo (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe 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.
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Blackmail (1929)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaLondon, 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…
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Manhattan Night (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaPorter 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…
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Following (1999)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaBill, 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…
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The Sense of an Ending (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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Heist (2001)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaJoe 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…
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Rogue Agent (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaConman 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.
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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA 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…
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The Company You Keep (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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Dogville (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA 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.