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Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
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Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated with his being sent to the Gulag for many years. He was in the Soviet Union, according to the film, for a total of 45 years.
Plot: gulag, communism, biopic, teenager, immigrant, immigrants
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: siberia, soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and captivating films with plots about biopic, world war two, filmmaking, communism, showbiz, hollywood and gulag mostly in Drama, Biography and War genres. Some movies like Coming Out of the Ice: Within the Whirlwind (2009), Gulag Vorkuta (2016), Diary for My Children (1984), Hitler (1962), Lute: Forge On or Die (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Within the Whirlwind (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
Plot: political repression, jailed, male female relationship, gulag, political prisoner, political persecution, political unrest, love story, relationships, love affair, wartime, wartime life ...
Time: year 1934
Place: siberia, ussr, soviet union
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El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his ...
Plot: biopic, gulag, juvenile delinquent, nazi, poverty, pursuit, female nudity, rat, police, brother brother relationship, wedding, kinky ...
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Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
Plot: landscape, marxist, gulag, dissident, faith, marxism, christian, genocide, communism, love, artist
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Diary for My Children (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style: art house, masterpiece, banned
Plot: communism, orphan, woman, totalitarian regime, women, communist, biopic, crush, bitterness, male female relationship, death of father, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1984, 1930s, 1950s, year 1947
Place: eastern europe, moscow russia, central europe, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Hitler (1962)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, intrigue, world war, myth, biopic, evil man
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison is a 1977 Italian drama directed by Lino Del Fra.
Style: political
Plot: prison, nazi, fascism, gulag, philosopher, marxist, political oppression, political prisoner, anti fascist, jail cell, communism, marxism ...
Place: italy
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Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: biopic, hollywood, mental illness, insane asylum, mental patient, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, state affairs, prodigy, politics, performer's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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Lute: Forge On or Die (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, ...
Style: social, hood
Plot: biopic, gang, juvenile delinquent, mafioso, gangster, ghetto, nazi, totalitarian state, gulag, justice, poverty, robbery ...
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All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who (together with his mischievous brother Tristan) already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures ...
Style: independent film, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, doctor, medical, veterinarian, small town, bittersweet, biopic, social differences, small town life, culture clash, countryside, animal life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: yorkshire, europe, england, britain
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56%
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Flynn (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: lgbt, filmmaking, hollywood, biopic, ambition, artists and showbiz, heroes, rise to the top, gays and lesbians, actor's life, criminal heroes, prodigy ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: australia, usa
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Curtin (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the ...
Plot: world war two, biopic, train, politics, military, historical event, breaking the fourth wall, speech
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, australia
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Trash (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only way for each of them to escape their miserable futures is by ...
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: escape, poverty, trailer park, loyalty, hate, love, biopic, tragedy, backwoods, coming of age, autobiography, teenager ...
Time: future
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Doing Life (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the ...
Plot: nazi, gulag, prison, prison warden, lawyer, prisoner, innocence, convict, wrongful conviction, killer, wrongful imprisonment
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The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Plot: firing squad, world war two, world war, execution, fictional history, death row, nazi, holocaust, death penalty, desertion, biopic, social commentary ...
Time: 1940s
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Mae West (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
Plot: hollywood, feminist, biopic, seduction, scandal, trial, filmmaking, actress, career, vaudeville, success, showbiz ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: california, manhattan new york city, new york
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Billy: The Early Years (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: christian film, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: christianity, faith, christian, self discovery, idealism, redemption, hopes, life is a bitch, society, lifestyle, clergy, miraculous event ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: north carolina
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Zina (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria ...
Style: independent film
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Time: year 1985, 1930s
Place: berlin germany, ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: rough, suspense, disturbing, bleak, black and white
Plot: deportation, world war two, gulag, survival, labor camp, grief, cruelty, politics, political prisoner, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, post soviet ...
Time: 1940s, year 1957, 1950s, year 1941
Place: latvia, soviet union, russia, siberia
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Endgame (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: semi autobiographical, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: chess, school, schoolboy, teenage life, rivalry, ambition, school club, direction and purpose, teenager, contest, biopic, broken family
Place: texas
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47%
The George Raft Story (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ray Danton plays the title role in director Joseph M. Newman's 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star. The cast also includes Jayne Mansfield, Barrie Chase, Julie London, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic ...
Plot: hollywood, biopic, al capone, actor's life, revolution, casino, gambling, gangster, movie star, couples, fashion, nightlife ...
Time: 1940s, year 1961, 1920s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place: new york, cuba, california, las vegas
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Bud and Lou (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, showbiz, comedy team, abbott and costello
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46%
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, political, independent film, serious ...
Plot: politics, biopic, intrigue, john f. kennedy, cold war, fbi, president, gangster, society, head of state, gays and lesbians, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 60s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, los angeles, california, chicago
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45%
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Sandino (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cuba, Italy, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
Plot: biopic, political intrigue, international relations, latin american history, rebel, revolutionary, partisan, resistance movement, guerilla warfare, anarchism, dictator
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: nicaragua, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Infinity (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Style: enigmatic, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: mathematics, couples, world war two, love, scientist, life philosophy, storytelling, science, love and romance, catastrophe, death, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1996, 1920s
Place: new mexico, new york, new orleans, usa, albuquerque new mexico
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42%
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style: intellectual, talky, witty, clever, heartbreaking ...
Plot: biopic, addiction, female nudity, loveless marriage, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, writers ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa
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Haywire (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: After fleeting marriages to Henry Fonda and William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan found contentment as the wife of producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and as the mother of three. Or so it seemed, until the marriage crumbled, the children rebelled and ...
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Tropic of Cancer (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: school, social relations, womanizer, writer's life, artists and showbiz, strong sexual content, mental institution, immigrant, husband wife relationship, american abroad, literary, fetish ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 60s
Place: france, paris france
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Trumbo (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Style: political, factual, talky, suspense, intense ...
Plot: communism, communist, hollywood, biopic, politics, gossip columnist, gossip, cancer, movie business, mccarthyism, screenwriter, film industry ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 70s, 1940s, 1950s ...
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40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Born into privilege and wealth, Pierre Trudeau was a boy who grew to value something more in his life. Disgusted with the tyrannical regime of Maurice Duplesis' governance of Quebec with the eager approval of the Catholic Church, Trudeau gains ...
Plot: civil rights, civil liberties, riot, political activist, conscription, lawyer, strike, politician, death of father
Time: 60s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Plot: writers, movie star, biopic, marriage, stroke, actress, filmmaking, writing
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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