Movies like Misbehaviour
If Misbehaviour's mix of 1970s, commune and affectation stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Misbehaviour's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Battle of the Sexes
2017 · Directed by Valerie Faris · 121 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, women's rights, approving · Also drama and comedy
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Wicked Little Letters
2024 · Directed by Thea Sharrock · 100 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Jessie Buckley · Shares: admiring · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Directed by Michael Showalter · 126 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: affectation, appreciative · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace…
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My Girl
1991 · Directed by Howard Zieff · 103 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s · Also comedy and drama
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him.
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On the Basis of Sex
2018 · Directed by Mimi Leder · 120 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s · Also drama and history
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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Steel Magnolias
1989 · Directed by Herbert Ross · 117 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: compassionate · Also drama and comedy
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig · 106 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
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Taxi Driver
1976 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 114 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, cautionary
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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Zodiac
2007 · Directed by David Fincher · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, ambiguous
Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed…
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American Sniper
2014 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: affectation, appreciative
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history.