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America is in need of inspiration, and two separate movies will present us with the same solution: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The upcoming documentary “RBG” and the Felicity Jones-starring biopic “On the Basis of Sex” are the latest additions to a long history of twin films – the phenomenon in which conceptually similar projects are released around the same time.

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Just in the past year, both “Dunkirk” and “Darkest Hour” were about the same inspiring evacuation in World War II, while “Rough Night” and “Girls Trip” depicted college friends’ rowdy reunions. If you include TV, the anthology series “Trust,” about the 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, begins Sunday, just a few months after “All the Money in the World” took on the same subject. And there are three Sharon Tate movies in the works.

Sometimes the similarities are sheer coincidence – recent animated flicks “Sherlock Gnomes” (out this weekend) and “Gnome Alone” (only released overseas so far) were not a response to any lack of garden gnome representation on screen. But at other times, such as with the Vietnam War-focused “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” the movies align with a social movement.