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Cal (1984)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Style:
political, art house, tense, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
terrorism, ira, trouble, forbidden love, female pubic hair, religion, war on terror, guilt, international relations, anglo irish relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, tragic love, political unrest, haunted by the past, assassination, tragic hero, state affairs, unfulfillment, couple relations, love, terrorist, female nudity, murder ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
northern ireland, europe, ireland, belfast
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Most similar movies to Cal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and tense films with plots about love and romance, state affairs, political unrest, female nudity, ira, anglo irish relations and murder mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Cal: The Informant (1997), Cage (1971), The Dawning (1988), Nothing Personal (1995), The Outsider (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, spy, anglo irish relations, freedom, trouble, dishonesty, introspection, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
100%
113
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Malta
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A study of the political and religious fanaticism in Malta in the 60s.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, art house, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
religious fanaticism, clergy, hypocrisy, crisis of faith, cultural conflict, political unrest, character study, power struggle, political satire, oppression, conformity, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
malta
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
ira, political unrest, coming of age, independence, society, youth, state affairs, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, teenage boy, friendship, struggle ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
ira, trouble, anglo irish relations, injustice, chaos, dedicated lawyer, state affairs, life is a bitch, terrorism, heroes, danger, legal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
ira, anglo irish relations, trouble, machine gun, power relations, war, innocence lost, terrorism, rivalry, dishonesty, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, detroit, england, scotland
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Style:
realistic, serious, independent film
Plot:
ira, arson, anglo irish relations, family relations, murder, couples, estate, revolution, political unrest, alcohol abuse, fall in love, family life ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bombing, gradually learns that the American man she has become involved with is not who he seems.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
terrorism, sex, terrorist, female nudity, skinny dipping, widow, railway, ira, politics, battles, rock, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, london, scotland ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot:
espionage, state affairs, undercover, political conspiracy, dishonesty, love and romance, danger, friendship, aspiring writer, brothers, writer's life, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, ira, anglo irish relations, trouble, shakespeare, profanity, family problems, family relations, snitch, religions or cults, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in ...
Style:
controversial, political, political thriller, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
politics, terrorism, conspiracy, blackmail, lawyer, corruption, human rights, trouble, british police, cia, torture, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, england, dublin ireland
Similarity:
29%
417
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, gloomy ...
Plot:
ira, jail, prison, conflict, struggle, anglo irish relations, friendship, haunted by the past, fall in love, hopes, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, against humanity, political unrest, revolution, life is a bitch, wartime life, hopes, fall in love, rebellion, evacuation, african, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
nigeria, africa, iraq, indiana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, violent, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sexual, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
infidelity, sex scene, male pubic hair, sexual content, bittersweet, couples, family problems, thirtysomething life, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, united kingdom, britain
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Style:
political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, moral dilemma, radical, terrorist, state affairs, undercover, betrayal, family relations, snitch, siblings relations, political unrest, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, year 1993, year 1973, 90s ...
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, london, england, belfast ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece ...
Style:
period piece, gloomy, emotional, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, nudity, attempted rape, murder, war, world war one, power relations, couples, social differences, infidelity, unfulfilled love, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 1999, 1920s
Place:
ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, sailor, mentally unstable, murder, mischievous children, dangerous attraction, coming of age, destiny, youth, death of father, sea, masturbation ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
Style:
non-linear, captivating, tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
impossible love, haunted by the past, obsession, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, obsessive quest, love and romance, unfulfillment, male pubic hair, male nudity, beach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Style:
psychological, intense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
redemption, vengeance, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, trouble, terrorism, revenge ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, year 1975, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, australia, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Angel Barciela and the police inspector Francisco Valduque meets after several years in the funeral of Buendía engineer. Both expect to see Julia, the daughter of the deceased and one of those involved in the investigation.
Style:
non-linear, suspenseful, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, funeral, hiding, investigation, nudity, law enforcement, partners against crime, rivalry, vengeance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, sex ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, intense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, infidelity, twists and turns, fall in love, couple relations, manipulation, actor's life, artists and showbiz, love affair, love story, sexual content, erotica ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, journalism, murder, infidelity, investigation, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, police detective, false accusation, frame up, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, england, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be ...
Style:
serious, realistic, romantic, sincere, period drama
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, family relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, writer's life, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time:
edwardian era
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
interracial relations, forbidden love, sikh, love and romance, fall in love, couples, society, soldier, political unrest, social relations, muslim, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, destiny, political unrest, state affairs, love and romance, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
22%
220
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
ira, terrorism, police detective, on the run, moral dilemma, injustice, law enforcement, rebellion, rebelliousness, society, love and romance, danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland, europe, belfast, paris france, dublin ireland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
trouble, anglo irish relations, ira, family relations, politics, school, violent content, injustice, campaign, power relations, legal, hopes ...
Time:
year 1998, 70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
revolution, kidnapping, doctor, rebel, diplomat, political unrest, starting over, politics, alcoholic, male nudity, prostitute, sex scene ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
latin america, paraguay, argentina, south america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
life sentence, tragic love, love affair, political unrest, love and romance, society, couples, fall in love, couple relations, state affairs, isolation, father daughter reunion ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, seoul
Similarity:
22%
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