Movies like Mudbound
If Mudbound's mix of farm, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and war veteran stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Mudbound's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Mississippi Burning
1988 · Directed by Alan Parker · 128 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: ku klux klan, mississippi river, racism
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white.
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A Time to Kill
1996 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 149 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: ku klux klan, mississippi river, racism
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 206 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: war veteran, racism
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
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Cherry
2021 · Directed by Joe Russo · 142 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), war veteran
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in…
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The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Directed by Edward Dmytryk · 124 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), world war ii
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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The Master
2012 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 137 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), post war · From the same decade (2010s)
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion"…
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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · Directed by George Roy Hill · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), world war ii
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life…
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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: ku klux klan, racism · From the same decade (2010s)
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Gran Torino
2008 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 116 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: war veteran
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Lawless
2012 · Directed by John Hillcoat · 115 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Jason Clarke · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging.
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The Beguiled
1971 · Directed by Don Siegel · 105 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: mississippi river
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies.