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Freedom (2023)
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Original name: Libertate
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Romania, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.
Style:
political, intense, historical drama, tense, political thriller, period piece
Plot:
soldier, freedom, revolution, chaos, conflict, secret police, oppression, liberation, protest, militia, civil unrest, siege, resistance, detention, panic, bloodbath, moral ambiguity, accusation, trauma, survival, escape, cold war, guilt, army, police ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Freedom
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, intense, period piece and historical drama films with plots about survival, moral ambiguity, resistance, oppression, trauma, revenge and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like Freedom: Before the Fall (2015), Fox: Hunter (1993), Black Birds (1967), With Heart & Soul (2009), Redhead (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: Cambodia, Singapore, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Cambodia 1975: The capital Phnom Penh is a city under siege. Only the presence of the last remaining US troops is keeping Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces from overrunning the town's fragile defenses. Inside this dark, dystopian setting a stunning ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tense, noir, neo noir ...
Plot:
khmer rouge, nightclub, love triangle, deception, survival, escape, collapse, chaos, betrayal, singer, moral ambiguity, siege ...
Place:
cambodia, indochina
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95%
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:
dictatorship, totalitarianism, oppression, revolution, fear, surveillance, guilt, protest, atonement, revolt, anxiety, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film centers around a Korean family who gets on the bad side of the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II.A Korean mother and daughter are thrown into a prison run by the Japanese and a lot of surprisingly tame ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, dark, art house
Plot:
female protagonist, japanese occupation, oppression, torture, mother daughter relationship, escape, survival, abuse, prisoner of war camp, social injustice, revenge, trauma ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, grim, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, escape, concentration camp, prisoner, survival, oppression, war crime, tragedy, resistance, execution, escape plan, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
greek civil war, brothers, civil war, brother vs brother, family drama, fanaticism, loss of innocence, family tragedy, national identity, tragedy, trauma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
68%
202
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
orphan, world war two, police brutality, survival, justice, coming of age, social injustice, juvenile detention, realism, teenage protagonist, abuse of power, character study ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist ...
Style:
intense, emotional, political thriller, independent film, political drama
Plot:
abuse of power, civil unrest, police brutality, human rights, protest, realism, oppression, civil liberties, post soviet, police station, corruption, false arrest ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, danger, fear, oppression, secret police, world war two, military life, star crossed lovers, military officer, love affair, wartime ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Set during the 1940s, Bheem Rao Deshmukh, a ruthless monarch and womanizer, rules Rudrangi and treats the local people there as his slaves.One day Bheem Rao comes across a woman named Rudrangi, and he falls for her beauty. Bheem Rao badly wants to ...
Style:
intense, historical drama, dark, period piece, political ...
Plot:
social injustice, feudalism, sexploitation, oppression, tyranny, power struggle, village, patriarchy, class conflict, monarch, justice, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mother and her two daughters fight to protect their home.
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, bravery, determination, mother and daughter, female empowerment, siege, resistance, courage, land dispute, family drama, sisters, social commentary ...
Place:
middle east, pakistan
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Nepal
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 2008, a band of young Islamic militants from Pakistan lands in Mumbai, their primary target, the iconic Taj Mahal hotel. With Indian forces unable to regain control, for 4 days the guests must battle to survive as the terrorists seek to drive ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, siege, survival, war on terror, terrorist attack, islamic terrorism, hotel, terrorist, terrorist bombing, threat, struggle for survival, crisis ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
mumbai india, india
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
identity, obsessive quest, problem, conflict, identity crisis, waking up, trauma, quest, freedom, truth, redemption, connection ...
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Style:
bleak, intense, independent film
Plot:
falklands war, soldier, amnesia, british military, post war, ostracism, cowardice, desertion, traumatic memory, trauma, alienation, abuse ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
57%
126
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
Style:
political thriller, period piece, historical drama, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fake identity, infiltration, undercover agent, espionage, political repression, moral dilemma, identity crisis, secret police, moral ambiguity, cold war, double life, spy ...
Place:
east germany, mexico
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
How far are you willing to go to save the people you love? This is the question Christian is forced to answer when he is smuggled into Syria in a desperate search for his son Adam. It's a deadly and soul-searching journey into a brutal, ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
sacrifice, parenthood, desperation, father son relationship, search and rescue, survival, trauma, journey, dangerous mission, moral dilemma, resilience, hostage ...
Place:
syria, middle east
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, political
Plot:
soldier, military, conflict, rescue mission, leadership, moral ambiguity, insubordination, battlefield, combat, power, heroism, platoon ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in 1983, behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in Budapest, the film follows Frank, the charismatic singer of a banned punk band that carries the voice of their generation against a totalitarian regime. Taken to the police psychiatric ...
Style:
dark, tense, historical drama, period piece, political drama ...
Plot:
totalitarian regime, political repression, authoritarianism, anti establishment, punk, police station, resistance, political persecution, oppression, iron curtain, imprisonment, mental institution ...
Time:
80s
Place:
budapest, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to ...
Style:
serious, tension, realistic, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
corruption, idealist, idealism, prosecutor, courtroom, suicide, fighting the system, prosecution, moral dilemma, legal, investigation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
romania, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, tense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
protest, communism, political unrest, oppression, social commentary, bittersweet, desperation, dark humor, cold war era, resilience, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe, bucharest, europe
Similarity:
48%
939
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1951 Communist-era Budapest, the secret police knock on the door of an ordinary family. Instead of arresting them, they decide to move in and hold the family captive in their own home, along with anyone who comes to visit them.
Style:
tense, historical drama, suspense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
claustrophobia, fear, surveillance, secret police, captivity, paranoia, totalitarianism, oppression, political repression, home invasion, psychological torture, house arrest ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style:
period piece, tense, realistic, political, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, nazi, world war, occupation, commando, friendship, liberation, military, resistance, combat, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place:
paris france, amsterdam, france
Similarity:
47%
249
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his families closest friends and neighbors turn on them purely because they are Croatian. Marijan is ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, intense, dramatic, realistic ...
Plot:
survivor, childhood, trauma, memory, flashback, war crime, forgiveness, captivity, ethnic conflict, violence, coming of age, small town ...
Time:
90s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
secret police, communist party, villain as protagonist, secret agent, obsession, cold war, paranoia, totalitarianism, male female relationship, agent, social problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, central europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, midwife, auschwitz, war criminal, atrocity, holocaust, life is a bitch, abortionist, jew persecution, wartime, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
oppression, totalitarianism, dissident, kgb, brutality, psychological torture, human rights, fear, conscience, resistance, trauma, interrogation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A pair of U.S. marshals search for a wanted murderer in Nevada at the height of the Cold War and encounter more than they bargained for.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, period piece, neo western ...
Plot:
cold war, pursuit, desert, manhunt, paranoia, law enforcement, investigation, isolation, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, survival, showdown ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
39%
147K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style:
exciting, political thriller, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
spy, iraq war, cia, war, soldier, military, politics, chase, pow, deception, special forces, gulf war ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2003, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq, kurdistan, israel
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
french algerian war, military, algerian war, torture, military life, soldier, wartime life, problem, wartime, war, military officer, warrior ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an effort to dismantle their military-backed government, four men hijack an airplane, leveraging passengers onboard in the name of social change.
Style:
political thriller, tense, intense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
political unrest, moral dilemma, power struggle, hijacking, civil unrest, negotiation, desperation, terrorism, revolution, mutiny, showdown, claustrophobia ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
37%
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