Movies like The Column
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The Column (1968)
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Original name: Columna
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in his place to occupy his latest conquest. After lopping off the head of the Dacian warlord, the soldier uses his blood-stained hands to dine on cheese and bread, unable to suppress his laughter. The centurion has a change of heart when he is put in charge of the region, freely dispensing justice and forgiveness to the conquered inhabitants. When the peace is threatened by marauding barbarians in masks of fur, the locals help the Romans fend off the invasion.
Plot:
antiquity, ancient rome, ancient world, roman, ancient, ancient history, betrayal, battles, sword, ancient civilization, suicide, construction, city, roman emperor, male female relationship, conquering, roman soldier, temple, sword and sandal, banquet, battle
Place:
rome italy, romania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, epic, realistic and captivating films with plots about ancient rome, ancient, ancient history, antiquity, battles, roman and sword and sandal mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Column: The Dacians (1966), Duel of Champions (1961), Slave Queen of Babylon (1963), The Centurion (1961), Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius ...
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ancient rome, antiquity, ancient, ancient history, sword, roman, ancient world, royal family, barbarian, roman soldier, occupation, roman empire ...
Time:
1st century b.c., 1st century, 80s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last ...
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serious
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rome italy, europe
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65%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
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General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a ...
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ancient world, antiquity, ancient history, historical event, male female relationship, queen, camp, sword fight, murder, forced labor, poisoned drink, torture ...
Place:
rome italy
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63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's ...
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antiquity, ancient world, roman, ancient history, forbidden love, dungeon, cave, evil man, torture, ancient rome, sword fight, branding iron ...
Place:
ancient greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
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AKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC
Plot:
ancient rome, antiquity, ancient, ancient history, roman, battles, torture, massacre, forced marriage, fencing, cell, peplum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
ancient history, ancient rome, shakespeare, antiquity, assassination, betrayal, ancient, warrior, historical event, roman, heroes, tragic hero ...
Time:
1st century b.c.
Place:
rome italy, ancient greece, europe
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55%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Constantin is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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53%
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Style:
serious, captivating, semi documentary
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a ...
Style:
epic, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
ancient rome, ancient history, royal family, cleopatra, wartime, antiquity, ancient egypt, royalty, ancient, shakespeare, tragic love, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
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51%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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47%
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Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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44%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, Germany, UK, France, Tunisia
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe’s continued independence. But ...
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captivating, exciting, epic, realistic, rough ...
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37%
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Country: Italy, France
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ancient rome, ancient history, antiquity, ancient, sibling relationship, disaster, catastrophe, battles, family relations, twins, state affairs, escapades ...
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Country: Italy, Spain
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Italy, UK
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The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B.C. as seen through the eyes of three people marked by death, loneliness and violence.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious, heroic
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34%
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
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Story:
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Place:
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32%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of ...
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serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful
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