Most Similar Movies to The Hairy Ape (1944)
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Night Is My Future (1947), Fanny (1932), Ossessione (1942), Shame (1968), Of Mice and Men (1939), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Five Easy Pieces (1970) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Night Is My Future (1947)
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
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Fanny (1932)
Marius (Pierre Fresnay) goes to sea, pregnant Fanny (Orane Demazis) marries, and Cesar (Raimu) is a godfather in part two of the Marseille trilogy.
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Ossessione (1942)
A drifter (Massimo Girotti) helps a beauty (Clara Calamai) kill her husband (Juan de Landa) in Italy.
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Shame (1968)
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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Of Mice and Men (1939)
A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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Kokoro (1955)
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.
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The Lower Depths (1957)
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
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Three Monkeys (2008)
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
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Uncle Vanya (1971)
The ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Il bidone (1955)
Tired of impersonating priests, three small-time swindlers (Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi) go their separate ways.
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Thirst (1957)
Vijay (Guru Dutt) writes unpopular poems about the destitute and poor. Ridiculed by his brothers and scorned by publishers, Vijay finds encouragement in a sweet prostitute, Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman). When a homeless man wearing a coat Vijay gave him is killed, Gulabo convinces a publisher to print his poems, believing Vijay to be dead. The poems are wildly popular, thanks to the myth conjured around Vijay's supposed death. When he reappears, he finds that few friends can be trusted.
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That Brennan Girl (1946)
The film begins on Mother's Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman) buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy's youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and finds her mother, Natalie (June Duprez), drinking with a strange man. Natalie introduces Ziggy as her "sister" and quietly cautions Ziggy against calling her "mother." Later, disp...Read all
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Flight From Destiny (1941)
An elderly professor, suffering from an aortic aneurism, confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.
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We Live Again (1934)
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Of Human Bondage (1946)
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
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