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The Great Ambition (2024)
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Original name: Berlinguer - La grande ambizione
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.
Style:
informative, tragic, political drama
Plot:
politics, communism, communist party, based on real people, italian politics, life, kidnapping, career, television, communist, blackmail, assassination attempt, husband wife relationship, newspaper, roma, car crash, speech
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1973, 20th century, year 1975, year 1984
Place:
rome italy, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, political and serious films with plots about biopic, based on real people, politics, career, husband wife relationship, life and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Great Ambition: Shirley (2024), Being Maria (2024), Flamin' Hot (2023), Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2 (2023), A Man Called Ahok (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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realistic, captivating, disturbing, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Siti Raham loyally supported Buya Hamka when he fought for independence and preached. Especially when Hamka was desperate because he was living in prison, Siti Raham continued to support him with sincerity. Thanks to Siti Raham's support, Hamka ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 122 min.
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A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect ...
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year 1982, 80s, 70s, year 1986, year 1983 ...
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city, florida, north america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, indonesian
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
biopic, colonialism, activism, social justice, nationalism, oppression, resistance, leader, male protagonist, identity, national hero, based on real people ...
Time:
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Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Zimbabwe, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, exciting, entertaining, dramatic ...
Plot:
cold war, engineer, video game, salesman, biopic, job, game, puzzle, designer, computer, legal, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 80s, year 1983, year 1972, 20th century ...
Place:
south america, uruguay, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 208 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, UK, South Africa, Luxembourg
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, touching, political ...
Plot:
apartheid, prison life, racism, racial violence, leadership, interracial relations, politics, freedom fighter, friendship, fighting the system, rebellion, self discovery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, emotional, political drama ...
Plot:
greek history, political persecution, communism, political activism, biopic, cold war, greek civil war, execution, martyrdom, sacrifice, politics, resistance fighter ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction. She must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US ...
Style:
political, semi autobiographical, thrilling, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, tension, political thriller, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, kidnapping, political violence, power struggle, political unrest, hostage situation, social commentary, conspiracy, mourning, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sketch comedy, witty, period drama
Plot:
sexual innuendo, chaos, biopic, television studio, che guevara, marijuana, male protagonist, behind the scenes, llama, contract, cocaine, backstage ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon, a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands within. Spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking ...
Style:
political, factual, compassionate, talky, intense ...
Plot:
politics, vietnam war, government, american politics, political corruption, biopic, nixon, campaign, election, conspiracy, political leader, manipulation ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1972, year 1973 ...
Place:
washington d.c., chile, north america, china, vietnam ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, manipulation, clergy, legal, gangster, cons and scams, bankruptcy ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, london, palermo italy, switzerland ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger ...
Style:
period piece, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
1850s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, naples italy, southern italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard ...
Style:
black and white, period drama, f word
Plot:
female nudity, poet, novelist, prison, voice over narration, sex scene, based on real people, blood, biopic, sick woman, writers, homeless man ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, moscow russia, paris france
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