Movies like On the Basis of Sex
On the Basis of Sex (2018) is a history movie directed by Mimi Leder. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Imitation Game (2014)
★ 8.0 · 18,538 votes · History, Drama, Thriller
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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2. Just Mercy (2019)
★ 7.8 · 2,566 votes · Drama, Crime, History
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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3. The Irishman (2019)
★ 7.6 · 7,782 votes · Crime, Drama, History
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
