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Being Heumann (2026)

Scrappy, defiant, and done being treated like a burden, Judy Heumann turns her outrage into a revolution. In 1977, she and more than 100 disability rights protestors send a very loud message: The system is broken—not us.

Directed bySian Heder

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    Rustin

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 108 min · Drama · History

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    Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: activist and protest
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    Truth & Treason

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 121 min · Drama · History · Thriller

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    In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign broadcasts and distributes leaflets exposing Nazi lies. As the Gestapo closes in, the teenagers face mounting danger for choosing conscience over obedience. Based on the true story of one of Germany’s youngest resistance fighters.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Escape from Pretoria

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    2020 · 102 min · Drama · History · Thriller

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    South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

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    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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    The Lost Bus

    Same studio

    2025 · 130 min · Drama · Thriller

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    A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

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    • strong recommendation signals
    • shared production studio: Apple Studios
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    Beautiful Boy

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    2018 · 121 min · Drama

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    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • similar audience response
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    Nuremberg

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    2025 · 149 min · Drama · History

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    In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

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    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
    • similar audience response
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    Nickel Boys

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    2024 · 140 min · Drama · History

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    Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

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    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Origin

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 141 min · Drama · History

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    While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    tick, tick... BOOM!

    Strong story similarity

    2021 · 120 min · Drama · Music

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    On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

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