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At Full Gallop (1996)
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At Full Gallop (1996)
Original name: Cwał
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
Plot: bad father, horse, school, escape, friendship, twins, politics, family relations, communism, lie, communist, father son relationship, liar, horse riding, government, bourgeoisie, horseman, josef stalin, equestrian, secret police, stalinism, canoe, pension, autobiography, friend ...
Time: post world war two, 1950s, 50s
Place: poland, ussr, denmark, warsaw poland
Keyword: stable

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, intellectual and touching films with plots about politics, communism, renaissance, friendship, father son relationship, communist and family relations mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like At Full Gallop: Shivers (1981), Camouflage (1977), Spiral (1978), Mother (1990), Behind The Wall (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story: A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Plot: revenge, justice, passport, political activist, communist, polish history, painful memories, politics, lie, university student, depression, businesswoman ...
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Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style: political
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Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Camouflage (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style: thought provoking, talky, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: renaissance, summer, intrigue, summer camp, manipulation, satire, nudity, father son relationship, male nudity, idealism, society, politics ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia
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Spiral (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style: intellectual
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Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky ...
Plot: oedipus complex, protest, russian empire, political activist, socialist, publishing, forced suicide, demonstration, worker, communist, communism, murder of mother ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 56 min.
Story: Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his ...
Plot: suicide attempt, chemistry, workaholic, professor, writers, renaissance, midlife crisis, career, promotion, tough guy, dedication, exhaustion ...
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style: contemplative, depressing, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
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Duration: 156 min.
Story: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as ...
Style: political, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: strike, communism, protest, union, communist, revolution, labor, identity, fictional history, chaos, renaissance, kung fu ...
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Place: poland, ussr, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story: The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: renaissance, mountaineer, frame up, job, father, fired from the job, father son relationship, dying, death, corruption, death of father, death of mother ...
Time: year 1980
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
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Duration: 107 min.
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Audience: adult
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Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
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Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
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32%
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Genre: Drama, History
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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
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