Movies like The Master
The Master (2012) is a drama movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
★ 7.6 · 892 votes · Documentary
The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
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2. My Scientology Movie (2016)
★ 6.6 · 310 votes · Documentary
After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.
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3. Tommy (1975)
★ 6.5 · 391 votes · Drama, Music
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
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4. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
★ 6.5 · 583 votes · Crime, Romance, Drama
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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5. Silent Hill (2006)
★ 6.6 · 5,142 votes · Horror, Mystery
Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
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6. Monster (2003)
★ 7.2 · 2,649 votes · Crime, Drama
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.
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7. Mudbound (2017)
★ 7.4 · 1,343 votes · Drama
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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8. Scarecrow (1973)
★ 7.0 · 363 votes · Drama
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
★ 8.2 · 15,409 votes · Drama, History, War
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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10. There Will Be Blood (2007)
★ 8.1 · 7,788 votes · Drama
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
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11. The Godfather (1972)
★ 8.7 · 23,761 votes · Drama, Crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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12. Crash (1996)
★ 6.5 · 1,456 votes · Thriller, Drama
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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13. Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9 · 3,516 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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14. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
★ 6.6 · 858 votes · Drama, Thriller
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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15. Black Snake Moan (2006)
★ 6.8 · 1,017 votes · Drama
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
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16. Cherry (2021)
★ 7.3 · 1,435 votes · Drama, Crime
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 the world.
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17. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
★ 7.0 · 1,964 votes · Drama, War
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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18. Enter the Void (2010)
★ 7.3 · 2,068 votes · Fantasy, Drama
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
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19. Causeway (2022)
★ 6.5 · 595 votes · Drama
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
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20. The Railway Man (2013)
★ 6.8 · 800 votes · Drama, History
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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