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Land and Freedom (1995)
 7.5
 12K
Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists. Similar to George Orwell's experiences documented in Homage to Catalonia, he joins the POUM worker militia and witnesses first hand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by the Stalinists, loyal only to the dictat of Moscow.
Style: political, philosophical, social, sad, hispanic, informative, thought provoking, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, world war two, dictator, dictatorship, socialist, betrayal, worker, war, military, rebellion, fighting the system, society, idealism, marxist, anarchism, spanish history ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, 30s
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england, barcelona spain

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, political and captivating films with plots about political unrest, society, politics, state affairs, war, rebellion and revolution mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Land and Freedom: The Battle of Algiers (1966), Che: Part Two (2008), The Army of Shadows (1969), Freedomfighters (1996), Che: Part One (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
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100%
 6.8
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Che: Part Two (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. ...
Style: political, inspirational, talky, suspense, factual ...
Plot: revolution, communism, dictatorship, rebel, idealism, biopic, hopes, life is a bitch, downfall, state affairs, heroes, folk hero ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 60s, year 1966, year 1967
Place: bolivia, cuba, latin america, caribbean, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Freedomfighters (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style: political, informative, social, sad, serious ...
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, civil war, rebellion, revolution, spanish history, radical, international relations, labor, sex ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: barcelona, iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Che: Part One (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Style: political, intense, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: revolution, cuban revolution, dictatorship, communism, violence, military, biopic, freedom, idealism, rebel, civil war, cold war ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2008, 60s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, caribbean, mexico city, new york
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 7.6
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Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, wartime life, political unrest, woman in danger, fall in love, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, family relations, civil war, false accusation, rebellion, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, ...
Style: retro, black and white, realistic, serious, wild
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, struggle, anarchy, friendly fire, freedom, revolutionary, youth, time travel, world war two, conflict ...
Time: 60s
Place: persia, france, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Red and the White (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style: political, contemplative, black and white, experimental, art house ...
Plot: revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, time travel, great war, international relations, conflict, revolutionary war, revolutionary, freedom, spirituality ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1910s, year 1919
Place: soviet union, hungary, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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April Captains (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Style: serious, tense, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dictatorship, military coup, military, rebellion, coup d'etat, family relations, politics, state affairs, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: portugal, africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 8K
Under Fire (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Style: realistic, political, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: journalism, photojournalist, politics, photographer, idealism, reporter, revolution, journalist, photograph, photography, media, military ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1979
Place: nicaragua, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 5K
Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
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The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: civil war, espionage, protest, spy, female nudity, revolution, spanish civil war, time travel, secret mission, spanish history, idealism, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1965
Place: france, spain, paris france, europe, andalusia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 701
Broken Silence (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sincere
Plot: fall in love, heroes, political unrest, rebelliousness, society, against humanity, small town, politics, repression, francisco franco, spanish civil war, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Stalingrad (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story: "Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 3K
Salvador (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, dictatorship, death penalty, legal, against humanity, legal investigation, politics, rebellion, missing person, demonstration, fighting the system, journalism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
There Be Dragons (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, stylized ...
Plot: priest, spanish civil war, catholic, saint, soldier, dying father, betrayal, journalist, redemption, self discovery, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s, year 1937, 70s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 7K
While at War (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, intellectual
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, coup d'etat, dictatorship, moral dilemma, military coup, professor, arrest, military, civil war, danger, society ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century
Place: morocco, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin ...
Style: touching, stylized, captivating, sad, political ...
Plot: politics, communism, stalinism, communist, father daughter relationship, nkvd, repression, symbolism, revolution, countryside, redemption, world war two ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 4K
Just Great (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style: surreal, political, contemplative, clever, witty ...
Plot: reporter, strike, dialectical materialism, female journalist, love, chaos, anarchism, anarchy, communism, revolution, factory, politics ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: france, paris france, asia, vietnam, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 207
Latino (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels ...
Style: political, independent film, thought provoking, biting, serious ...
Plot: international relations, spy, state terrorism, military, torture, revolution, battles, political unrest, jungle, anti war, rebelliousness, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: nicaragua, latin america, asia, vietnam, central america
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100%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
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Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 2K
Eleni (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as ...
Style: political, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: biopic, reporter, civil war, greek civil war, correspondents, photojournalist, war zone, christian, girl, revolution, village, war ...
Time: year 1985
Place: greece, europe
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100%
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The 13 Roses (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, false accusation, social decay, life is a bitch, betrayal, idealism, society, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 519
Two Deaths (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Style: erotic drama, political, sensual, serious, realistic ...
Plot: romanian revolution, vengeance, obsession, revolution, couples, state affairs, master and servant, human nature, politics, society, couple relations, forbidden love ...
Time: 90s
Place: romania, europe, bucharest, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 26K
The Tin Drum (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style: surreal, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, coming of age, nazi, circus, boy, wartime life, magic realism, life is a bitch, political unrest, beach, against humanity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1979 ...
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 26K
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Style: political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: ira, rebellion, civil rights, protest, conflict, politics, terrorism, injustice, civil war, ethnic conflict, political unrest, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1972 ...
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.9
 317
The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 383
Winstanley (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communaly. He comes into conflict with both the state and the church.
Style: historically accurate, political, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, utopia, liberation theology, anarchism, landscape, underdog, love letter, time machine, radical, folklore, child in peril, battles ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Zookeeper (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, society, life is a bitch, danger, rebellion, political unrest, politics, totalitarianism, righting the wronged ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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