Movies like The Promised Land 1975

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The Promised Land (1975)
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The Promised Land (1975)
Original name: Ziemia obiecana
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Style: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
Plot: friendship, revolution, revenge, artist, time machine, railway, fire, adultery, capitalism, revolt, renaissance, arsonist, capitalist, identity, factory worker, literary, politics, infidelity, peasant, cuckolded husband, teacher, cheating, luxury, humanity, bankrupt ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe, vienna, hamburg germany
Keyword: jewish, german, reading

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Corpus Christi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s ...
Style: sincere, art house, touching, thought provoking, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: catholic church, prison, juvenile prison, ex convict, sex scene, priest, grief, funeral, mayor, fake identity, fake priest, car accident ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: poland, central europe, eastern europe
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Man of Marble (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Style: emotional, meditative, compassionate, talky, disturbing ...
Plot: politics, visceral, communism, working class, friendship, honest, eviction, terrorist, journalism, heroes, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 1950s, year 1976, 20th century ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
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The Birch Wood (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sexual, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, countryside, piano, renaissance, magic realism, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, village life, comeback, life & death, family life ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, switzerland
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45%
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Katie Tippel (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style: cult classic, touching, sexual, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: prostitution, sex crime, dutch history, family relations, prostitute, sexual abuse, male nudity, rape, erection, poverty, nudity, couples ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 20th century, 1880s
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
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Germinal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min.
Story: It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Style: political, realistic, emotional, anthology, philosophical ...
Plot: mining, revolution, art, politics, union, capitalism, fighting the system, french history, anarchist, unemployment, miner, coal ...
Time: 19th century, year 1993, victorian era
Place: france, europe, flanders
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35%
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, anarchist, biopic, world war, italian fascism, solar eclipse, revolt, strike ...
Time: year 1979, 1930s, year 1936, year 1935
Place: italy, naples italy, europe, turin italy, new york ...
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35%
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Danton (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style: political, epic, talky, historically accurate, historical drama ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, biopic, politics, revolutionary, colonialism, idealism, execution, terrorism, political unrest, world history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1983, ancient times, 1780s ...
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Three Brothers (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, naples italy, germany ...
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34%
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Man of Iron (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as ...
Style: political, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: strike, communism, protest, union, communist, revolution, labor, identity, fictional history, chaos, renaissance, kung fu ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 70s, 60s
Place: poland, ussr, eastern europe, europe
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33%
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time: 90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place: south korea
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Blame It on Fidel! (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: politics, coming of age, radical, family life, political unrest, family problems, immigrant, hopes, journalism, state affairs, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, cuba, paris france, europe, chile ...
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Landscape After Battle (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, female nudity, nazi, fascism, terrorism, wartime, nazi concentration camp, renaissance, survival, concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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The Inheritance (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: enigmatic, meditative, serious, sincere, stylized ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, secrets, suicide, family business, family life, adultery, family problems, family values, inheritance, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, denmark, south of france, copenhagen
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
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Paradise (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot: televangelist, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, faith, infidelity, marriage, businessman, reverend, hypocrisy, father son relationship, money, wealth ...
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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style: existential, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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29%
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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29%
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Magnifico (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
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Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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29%
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high society, social climbing, aristocrat, rise to the top, female protagonist, rich and poor, blind ambition, couple relations, lovers, life turned upside down, power relations, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, bombay india ...
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Mrs. Harris (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: clever, realistic, serious, biting, witty ...
Plot: crimes of passion, murder, vengeance, destructive relationship, obsession, addiction, couples, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: florida, virginia, philadelphia, new york
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29%
The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: sensual, social, political, thought provoking, captivating ...
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Time: 70s
Place: spain, madrid, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
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Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
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Priest Daens (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few ...
Style: bleak, sincere, disturbing, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, biopic, liberation theology, belgian history, justice, strike, labor, unemployment, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1890s, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: belgium, europe, flanders
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27%
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Walkout (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the students decide to stage a peaceful walkout to protest the injustices of the public school system. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, political ...
Plot: politics, discrimination, society, righting the wronged, fighting the system, teachers and students, lifestyle, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, activism, resistance, high school ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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26%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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26%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Austeria (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: world war one, renaissance, great war, cossack, male objectification, skinny dipping, lake, burial, fire, extramarital affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violinist ...
Time: year 1914, pre world war one
Place: poland, eastern europe, austria
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25%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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