Movies like Doubt
If Doubt's mix of sexual abuse, nun and wine stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Doubt's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Help
2011 · Directed by Tate Taylor · 146 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Viola Davis · Shares: 1960s
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers…
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 139 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: sexual abuse, 1960s
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Spotlight
2015 · Directed by Tom McCarthy · 129 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: priest
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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Black Narcissus
1947 · Directed by Michael Powell · 100 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nun
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace.
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The Hurricane
1999 · Directed by Norman Jewison · 146 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 · Directed by Brian Gibson · 118 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.
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The Wanderers
1979 · Directed by Philip Kaufman · 117 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The…
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The Man Without a Face
1993 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 115 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of…