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Rajkahini (2015)
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Original name: রাজকাহিনী
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, period piece, offbeat, suspense, melancholic, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
brothel, women, historical event, social problems, political unrest, survival, tragedy, power struggle, resilience, moral ambiguity, rape, sexual harassment, claustrophobia, nationalism, human rights, social injustice, bengali, bollywood
Place:
kolkata, india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, historical drama and period piece films with plots about survival, tragedy, social problems, life is a bitch, society, betrayal and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama, History and Action genres. Some movies like Rajkahini: Gumnaami (2019), Charm of Evil (2006), The Orphan of Zhao (2013), Black Thursday (2011), Ek Je Chhilo Raja (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 275 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate (also known as the Bikrampur Estate), was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment along with his wife, Chandrabati Devi, brother-in-law, Satya, and a family ...
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Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a midwife to help his pregnant wife, years ago. As he has been arrested during a demonstration the authorities thought he is one of the opposition group ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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281
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 176 min.
Story:
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Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, ...
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Country: South Korea
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Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The ...
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