Most Similar Movies to An Enemy of the People (1978)
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Eboli (1979), Promised Land (2012), Terribly Happy (2008), The Burning Bed (1984), Dark Waters (2019), Town Without Pity (1961), Jimmy's Hall (2014) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Eboli (1979)
A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
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Promised Land (2012)
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
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Terribly Happy (2008)
Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
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The Burning Bed (1984)
Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) suffers the abuse of her husband, Mickey (Paul Le Mat), for almost a decade because she cannot find any help. When a drunken Mickey rapes her and then passes out, Francine pours gasoline over him and lights it on fire. In the ensuing blaze, Mickey dies and the house burns down. During Francine's trial, she testifies about her years of suffering, and her attorney, Aryon Greydanus (Richard Masur), tries to have her declared temporarily insane and acquitted.
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Dark Waters (2019)
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
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Town Without Pity (1961)
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
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Jimmy's Hall (2014)
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
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The Clay Bird (2002)
In East Pakistan a strict Muslim (Jayanto Chattopadhyay) enrolls his young son (Nurul Islam Bablu) in an Islamic school, where the boy befriends the class outcast (Russell Farazi).
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Jimmy P. (2013)
A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
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Mouchette (1967)
Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
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Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Oozing sensuality, a young woman arrives in a small town and gets married to the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?
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Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.
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Camila (1984)
In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several...Read all
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