Movies Like The Last Vermeer
If you liked The Last Vermeer (2019), a drama and history movie directed by Dan Friedkin, 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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Nightwatching (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyAn extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaNazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Out for Justice (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaGino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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Critical Thinking (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaBased on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but…
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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyIn 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyRegent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
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Gotti (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJohn Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…
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A Midnight Clear (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyIn 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their…
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaTwo feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.
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Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaFreddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…
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Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
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Death Wish II (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaPaul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Training Day (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaOn his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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The Day of the Locust (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaHollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life…
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Storm Warning (1951)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
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Walker (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyWilliam Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaArchitect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Marathon Man (1976)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Casualties of War (1989)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyDuring the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.