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The Red and the White (1967)
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The Red and the White (1967)
Original name: Csillagosok, KatonĂ¡k
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style: political, contemplative, black and white, philosophical, spiritual, experimental, art house, visual, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, time travel, spirituality, freedom, revolutionary, darkness, conflict, radical, international relations, love letter, revolutionary war, great war, monastery, equestrian, war, heroes, military, politics, battles, soldier, genocide, anti war ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 1910s, year 1919
Place: soviet union, europe, hungary, russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and rough films with plots about war, military, battles, soldier, politics, rebellion and state affairs mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Red and the White: Land and Freedom (1995), The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Round-Up (1966), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), The White Guard (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
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Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
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The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
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Audience: manly
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The White Guard (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 47 min.
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Style: suspense, serious
Plot: russian civil war, war, wartime life, soldier, army, politics, destiny, revolution, civil war, state affairs, military officer, love affair ...
Time: 1910s
Place: kiev ukraine, russia
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Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
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Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
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The Commissar (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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Place: soviet union, russia
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Duration: 102 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 86 min.
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Intimate Enemies (2007)
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24%
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22%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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21%
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