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Endless Night (2019)
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Original name: Longa Noite
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.
Style:
atmospheric, historical drama, bleak, melancholic, meditative, art house, period piece, slow cinema, experimental, allegory
Plot:
post war, dictatorship, oppression, political repression, resistance, authoritarianism, post civil war, trauma, forest, minimalism, isolation, moral ambiguity, village
Time:
1940s
Place:
galicia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, period piece, bleak and art house films with plots about moral ambiguity, resistance, survival, political repression, betrayal, oppression and isolation mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Endless Night: The Awakening (1989), Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967), Little Crusader (2017), Burnface (2010), Two Lines in Small Font (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A first film made of the 1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police NKVD. During couple of days and nights nearly 21 thousand people, mostly women and children, were under top secret taken from their homes to ...
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
political repression, symbolism, nkvd, deportation, political intrigue, occupation, stalinism
Time:
1940s
Place:
estonia, siberia, baltics
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era, and ...
Style:
anthology, historical drama, period piece, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
civil war, adaptation, soldier, brutality, village, political repression, survival, class conflict, destruction, moral ambiguity, haunting, realism ...
Time:
1920s
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91%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
Style:
art house, existential, meditative, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
medieval, father son relationship, quest, crusade, symbolism, mature, crusader, moral ambiguity, isolation, loneliness, tragedy, identity crisis ...
Time:
middle ages
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
resistance, partisan, guerilla warfare, spanish history, anti fascism, political repression, anarchism, persecution, biopic, militant, isolation, legacy ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1951, 50s
Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film by Melnikov.
Style:
historical drama, reflective, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
suicide, justice, legacy, tragic past, investigation, ethical dilemma, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, biopic, political repression, conspiracy, revolution ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, serious, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
inquisition, false confession, trial, religion, witch, confession, false accusation, superstition, religious persecution, tragedy, catholic church, female protagonist ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, tuscany
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62%
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, art house, suspenseful ...
Plot:
communism, anti communist, resistance, dictatorship, dictator, post war, guerilla warfare, political persecution, arrest, torture, hardship, desperation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
hunger, starvation, loss, family tragedy, village life, realism, mourning, survival, social commentary, oppression, memory, political repression ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
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59%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, bleak, period piece, political drama ...
Plot:
dictatorship, liberation theology, interrogation, police brutality, political repression, dictator, prison, betrayal, religion, arrest, suicide, resistance ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, reconciliation, german history, betrayal, memory, suppression, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, revenge, symbolism, loyalty ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, bleak, period piece, thought provoking ...
Plot:
political repression, social realism, father son relationship, village life, class struggle, oppression, cold war era, moral ambiguity, resistance, revenge, betrayal, boredom ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, poignant, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oppression, love story, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, piano, anti semitism, world war two, sacrifice, forbidden love, classical music, courage, prodigy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and heads to a small, isolated village near the eastern border. This is where her in-laws live and where her husband, who’s deployed on the front, has ...
Style:
bleak, intense, tense, grim, suspense ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, moral dilemma, paranoia, survival, moral ambiguity, fear, betrayal, claustrophobia, sisterhood, occupation, poisoning ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartbreaking, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
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1940s
Place:
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512
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary, UK, USA, Cyprus, France, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, tense, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, France, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Near a coastal village of Thailand, a local fisherman rescues a stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. When the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his ...
Style:
art house, slow cinema, atmospheric, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
sea, identity, loss, migration, moral ambiguity, impersonation, village life, haunting, isolation, friendship, grief, minimalism ...
Place:
thailand, poetic realism
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, bleak, serious, historical drama, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
torture, police brutality, authoritarianism, political repression, oppression, imprisonment, social injustice, sacrifice, resistance, conscience, tragedy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hotel, war crime, execution, tragedy, nazism, massacre, fear, ss officer, desperation, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
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Similarity:
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179
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and invaded by deep remorse, he decides to tell his only son his biggest secrets in search of redemption.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, melancholic, political thriller, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, bleak, family saga ...
Plot:
class struggle, social realism, national identity, social injustice, cautionary tale, murder, politics, male nudity, russian roulette, folk music
Place:
hungary, central europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, political thriller, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oppression, political repression, resistance, female protagonist, protest, totalitarianism, conscience, moral dilemma, cold war era, secret, courage, underground movement ...
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lithuania, eastern europe, soviet union
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1K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Sati system was abolished decades ago but Jhola is still relevant to today's Nepal where, unfortunately, cases of sexual harassment, violence against women, trafficking remain all too common.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, surreal, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, orphan, dealing with death, death in the family, oppression, patriarchy, social injustice, women's rights ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
nepal, asia
Similarity:
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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:
historical drama, dark, period piece, intense, tense ...
Plot:
execution, class struggle, political conflict, betrayal, political repression, socialism, tragedy, landowner, forbidden love, nazi, loss, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
national identity, social injustice, identity crisis, moral dilemma, oppression, occupation, nationalism, ethnic conflict, class conflict, resistance, betrayal, revenge
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, UK, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only ...
Style:
existential, bleak, reflective, grim, atmospheric ...
Plot:
isolation, loneliness, survivor, trauma, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, mourning, war veteran, post war, post apocalyptic, moral dilemma ...
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