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Marat/Sade (1967)
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Marat/Sade (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
Style: disturbing, stylized, psychological, tense, atmospheric, talky, biting, controversial, cult classic, mind blowing ...
Plot: french revolution, art, politics, revolution, insanity, sex maniac, psychopath, murder, mental illness, fighting the system, violence, male nudity, freedom, chaos, paranoid, assassination, psychiatric hospital, time machine, mental disorder, napoleonic wars, american revolution, fetish, worker, dance, literary ...
Time: 18th century, year 1967, 19th century, 1790s, 1800s
Place: france, paris france, europe
Keyword: avant-garde, napoleon, gangsters, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and captivating films with plots about society, state affairs, female nudity, life is a bitch, politics, dishonesty and murder mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Marat/Sade: Danton (1983), Macbeth (1971), Quills (2000), The Supper (1992), Les Miserables (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Danton (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style: political, epic, talky, historically accurate, historical drama ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, biopic, politics, revolutionary, colonialism, idealism, execution, terrorism, political unrest, world history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1983, ancient times, 1780s ...
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
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Macbeth (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Style: disturbing, visual, bleak, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, murder, guilt, witch, prophecy, macbeth, royalty, betrayal, witchcraft, knight, ambition ...
Time: 11th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1971, 20th century
Place: scotland, eastern europe, england, europe
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Quills (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style: erotic, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy ...
Plot: rape, sexuality, writer's life, priest, perversion, lust, writers, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, sex ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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67%
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The Supper (1992)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, ...
Style: political, contemplative, talky, biting, cynical ...
Plot: french history, napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, politics, gastronomy, secret police, french revolution, police, vice, revolution, battles, wartime life ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: paris france, france
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Les Miserables (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Style: fairy tale, social, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic era, peplum, broadway, revenge, catholic, historical event, redemption, tragic love, unrequited love, falsely accused, mother love ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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41%
That Night in Varennes (1982)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.
Style: historical drama, road movie, costume drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot: french revolution, king of france, revolution, teenage prostitute, older man young girl relationship, female nudity, writers, escape attempt, aristocracy, time machine, revolutionary, napoleonic wars ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1982, 1790s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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41%
Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their ...
Style: mind bending, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: royal family, royalty, time travel, post soviet, psychiatry, world war one, time jump, russian empire, political intrigue, psychiatric hospital, biopic, assassination ...
Time: 1910s, 90s
Place: ussr, russia
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41%
The French Revolution (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Canada
Duration: 335 min.
Story: A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis ...
Style: historical drama, cult classic, exciting, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, royal family, medieval, nobility, democracy, guillotine, monarch, world history, napoleonic wars, french royalty ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s, 1790s
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
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40%
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The King Is Dancing (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Style: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: french history, king of france, performer's life, royal family, royalty, composer, ballet, dancing, playwright, intrigue, dishonesty, rise and fall ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, versailles, europe
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The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter (Ormond) claims to have delivered the baby herself in a virgin birth. She imprisons the ...
Style: disturbing, avant garde, surreal, serious, rough ...
Plot: baby, virginity, bishop, religion, church, surrealism, dismemberment, death, hypocrisy, breast feeding, seduction, brutality ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, europe
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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38%
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Sade (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: debauchery, fetish, teenage girl, female masturbation, female nudity, sadomasochism, sexual relations, infidelity, french revolution, sexual exploration, murder, couples ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
One Nation, One King (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Un peuple et son roi crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the ...
Style: factual, realistic, captivating, tense, political
Plot: french revolution, king of france, french history, martial law, politics, execution, interrogation, arrest, poverty, world history, royalty, napoleonic era ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
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Solar Eclipse: Depth of Darkness (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Solar Eclipse is a conspiracy theory period movie based on true events, that led to the eventual assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The movie demonstrates a violent India, at the backdrop of a non-violent Gandhi, and hard-line fanatic mindsets ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, realistic, tense
Plot: conspiracy, conspiracy theory, politics, murder, assassination, political unrest, world war two, abraham lincoln, democracy, freedom, independence, violence
Time: year 1947
Place: usa, india
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style: surreal, poetic, atmospheric, avant garde, psychedelic ...
Plot: poet, surrealism, trippy, writers, poetry, biopic, medieval, magic realism, art, metaphor, death, betrayal ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969
Place: soviet union, caucasus, ussr, russia, georgia ...
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The Devils (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style: disturbing, controversial, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: religion, surrealism, inquisition, priest, nun, nunsploitation, witch, politics, torture, clergy, witchcraft, convent ...
Time: 17th century, year 1971, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages
Place: france, europe, london, england
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Titus (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
Style: disturbing, harsh, rough, serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, ancient, ancient rome, brutality, justice, secrets, cannibalism, state affairs, head of state, war, revenge, violence spree ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times
Place: rome italy, ancient greece, europe, italy
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37%
St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, utopia, chaos, basement, politics, revolution, prison, rebellion, hopes, state affairs, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: italy, europe
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Endgame (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, sincere, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bomb, politics, rebellion, danger, hopes, revolution, siege, unlikely partners, folk hero, leadership, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: south africa, africa, england, europe, cape town south africa
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36%
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washington is remembered as America's founding father, Arnold as America's most notorious traitor. ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: american revolution, revolution, independence, treason, political unrest, political conspiracy, assassination, military, state affairs, rebellion, tragic hero, war ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: usa, america, quebec, philadelphia
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36%
The Music Lovers (1971)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Style: historical drama, psychological, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: composer, classical music, biopic, piano, music, kremlin, gay, music composer, musician, lgbt, female nudity, dancing ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1890s, victorian era
Place: europe, russia, london, england, moscow russia
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Hedda (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had ...
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot: girl, manipulation, femme fatale, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, feminism, crumbling marriage, love and romance, human nature, introspection, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975
Place: europe
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Augustine (2012)
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot: mental illness, obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, sexual content, hypnosis, epilepsy, illness, medicine, girl, scientist, psychoanalyst ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Falling Star (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This colourful feature debut from experienced producer Luis Miñarro offers an almost hallucinatory look at the world of Amadeo of Savoy, who was king of an ungovernable Spain for two years around 1870. This intriguing episode is transformed into a ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating
Plot: royal family, male nudity, erection, male pubic hair, gay interest, society, state affairs, royal court, political unrest, master and servant, gay, art ...
Time: 19th century
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The Viceroys (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, dishonesty, society, revolution, family life, palace intrigue, power struggle, revisionist history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: sicily, italy, rome italy, europe
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35%
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, crying, period drama
Plot: french revolution, writers, poet, historical event, art, napoleonic wars, politics, obsession, love triangle, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, year 1972
Place: england, europe, rome italy
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35%
The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and ...
Style: anthology, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, courtroom drama, mental institution, war veteran, confession of crime, serial child killer, rural setting, male rape victim, murder confession, anti semitism, lawyer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1890s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, action adventure ...
Plot: revolution, injustice, medieval, folk hero, rebellion, murder, vengeance, rebelliousness, loss of wife, life is a bitch, society, righting the wronged ...
Time: 16th century, future, 2010s, medieval times, year 2013
Place: france, europe
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Colonel Chabert (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style: harsh, stylized, talky, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, betrayal, battles, war, military, haunted by the past, homecoming, aristocracy, dishonesty, life is a bitch, infidelity, missing person ...
Time: 19th century, year 1994, 1810s, 18th century, 1800s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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