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Manor House (2020)
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Original name: Malmkrog
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, France
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, art house, cerebral, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, meditative ...
Plot:
culture clash, aristocracy, mansion, morality, debate, manor, high society, intrigue, relationship problems, cultural difference, politics, slow burn, literary, christmas, class conflict, house, etiquette, dialogue driven
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, russian
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Duration: 133 min.
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 148 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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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Time:
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64%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
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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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, visually stunning, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 275 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 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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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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