Films like The Great Santini
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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Dad
Film · 1989 · also dramaA busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than...
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Of Mice and Men
Film · 1939 · also dramaAn intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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East of Eden
Film · 1955 · also dramaIn the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrate...
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Bravetown
Film · 2015 · also dramaAfter an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and lear...
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I Never Sang for My Father
Film · 1970 · also dramaA man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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The Long, Hot Summer
Film · 1958 · also dramaAccused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Chasing Mavericks
Film · 2012 · also dramaSurfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
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The Fabelmans
Film · 2022 · also dramaGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret a...
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Military Wives
Film · 2020 · also dramaInspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship...
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High Crimes
Film · 2002 · also dramaA female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believ...
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