Movies like Fire and Ice 1962

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Fire and Ice (1962)
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Fire and Ice (1962)
Original name: Le Combat dans l’île
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne (the luminous German screen siren Romy Schneider) flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul (Henri Serre). As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional as well as political tensions soar and eventually explode.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, political, eurospy, french noir
Plot: politics, terrorism, assassination, french algerian war, contract killer, battles, racism, gory, fascism, mental illness, anti war, society, political unrest, mentally unstable, state affairs, couple relations, chaos and mayhem, violent content, divorce, house, jealousy, deception, maid, abortion, boat ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: algeria, france, paris france, normandy, argentina
Keyword: new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about state affairs, politics, dishonesty, deadly, society, murder and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Fire and Ice: The Passengers (1977), No God, No Master (2013), President (2006), The Patriots (1994), Through the Air (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Passengers (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Style: road movie, suspenseful, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: murder, stalking, truck, obsession, stepfather stepson relationship, fear, car chase, road trip, boy, killer, school, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, rome italy, italy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
No God, No Master (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919 when William Flynn, a field agent for the Bureau of Investigation, is sent to investigate a bomb threat that has targeted some of America's ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, art film
Plot: politics, investigation, state affairs, terrorism, society, danger, assassination, law enforcement, political unrest, assassination attempt, war on terror, anarchism ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1919
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.7
 593
President (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: fall in love, idealism, ambition, intern, politics, hopes, parents and children, family relations, head of state, political intrigue, state affairs, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 7.3
 2K
The Patriots (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Ariel, un jeune Juif français, décide de quitter sa famille pour partir en Israël et devenir un agent du Mossad, les services secrets israéliens. En participant à des missions à Paris, Tel Aviv et Washington, il sera initié à l'art ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, mossad, espionage, wartime, paranoid, terrorism, hitman, secret agent, intrigue, government agency, dishonesty, politics ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france, israel, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Through the Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: contract killing, parents and children, moral dilemma, conspiracy, couples, danger, family problems, family in crisis, contract killer, pig, debt, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.6
 356
Last Screening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Secret Agent (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, politics, bomb, secret agent, murder mystery, police inspector, conspiracy, sabotage, state affairs, undercover, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1880s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Paris by Night (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Style: independent film, tense, biting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, politics, female politician, strong female presence, manipulation, couples, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, infidelity, relationship vs career, love affair, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, society, dishonesty, political corruption, murder, political unrest, government, dictatorship, dictator, manipulation, multiple storylines ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 8.2
 31K
Z (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style: political, political thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, military, police, government, right wing, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, political corruption, justice, protest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.9
 33K
The Conformist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style: political, art house, visual, breathtaking, neo noir ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, confession, child molestation, ambush ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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57%
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06/05 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross.
Style: tense, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, political conspiracy, dishonesty, assassination, life is a bitch, politics, state affairs, fighting the system, immigrant, conspiracy, animal life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Fatwa (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, terrorism, dishonesty, murder, propaganda, heroes ...
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.4
 2K
Triple Agent (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot: spy, politics, government agency, secret agent, betrayal, undercover, life is a bitch, political corruption, rebellion, uncover truth, dishonesty, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, russia, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Style: metafiction, psychological, serious, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: fantomas, urbanization, conspiracy, theater, mental illness, paranoia, cold war era, femme fatale, expatriate, theatrical troupe, investigation, intrigue ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century, year 1957
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Homeland (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: adoption, family relations, family problems, political unrest, society, state affairs, parents and children, danger, rivalry, human nature, greek, riot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Flower of Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot: incest, haunted by the past, womanizer, murder, bourgeoisie, forbidden love, society, politics, family problems, parents and children, love and romance, campaign ...
Time: year 2003
Place: vichy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, investigation, adultery, marriage, cheating wife, murder, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Stone Merchant (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Merchant (Harvey Keitel) is a Westerner. A merchant dealing in precious stones from Afganistan and Turkey. He's above suspicion. In truth, the "Stone Merchant" is a Christian convert into Islam. He's rich, cultured, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense
Plot: obsessive quest, danger, manipulation, politics, race against time, state affairs, against the rules, terrorism, terrorist attack, special agent, religions or cults, fall in love ...
Place: middle east, afghanistan, europe, turkey, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: assassination, politics, political corruption, political conspiracy, kidnapping, moral dilemma, murder, conspiracy, state affairs, mission gone awry, emotionless, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: jealousy, love, obsession, investigation, danger, couples, stalking, infidelity, rivalry, lovers, unfaithful, true love ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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47%
The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, investigation, uncover truth, chaos, state affairs, danger, politics, society, fbi agent, 9/11, islam, torture ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, london, pakistan, israel, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Unvanquished (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of ...
Style: neo noir, french noir
Plot: kidnapping, conflict, african, military, held captive, kidnapped woman, hostage, treason, french army, bullet wound, honey, abduction ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, year 1959
Place: algeria, france, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Executioner (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Style: talky, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, assassin, dishonesty, state affairs, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal, government agency, heroes, chases and races, undercover ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Insurgents (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, politics, conspiracy, bomb, rebellion, state affairs, society, rivalry, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.9
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The Activist (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, political ...
Plot: political unrest, friendship, state affairs, rebellion, injustice, confined, society, prison, political activist, arrest, indigenous people, native ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Few Days in September (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Portugal
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller, tense
Plot: 9/11, secret agent, state affairs, undercover, dishonesty, parents and children, terrorism, sniper, intelligence agency, law enforcement, killer, political intrigue ...
Time: september 11 2001, future, 21st century
Place: paris france, venice, italy, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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8th Wonderland (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A website where people can virtually live in a true democracy becomes so popular that its leading members take questionable actions to improve the real world as well. This backfires and various governments brand them terrorists.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky, contemplative ...
Plot: revolution, society, secret movement, rebelliousness, politics, fighting the system, social decay, anti capitalism, political unrest, political corruption, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Inheritor (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to ...
Style: cynical, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: murder, frame up, airport, private detective, assassination, french algerian war, political intrigue, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, fascism, politics, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: paris france, france, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Girlfriends (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, love triangle, menage a trois, bisexual, polyamory, gay, triad, swing, architecture, lesbianism, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, saint tropez, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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