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The Marquise of O (1976)
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The Marquise of O (1976)
Original name: Die Marquise von O...
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Style: spiritual, romantic, serious, realistic, period piece, period drama
Plot: summer, spirit, spirituality, napoleon bonaparte, american revolution, german history, marriage, pregnancy, soldier, rescue, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, jury, introspection, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, woman in danger, destructive relationship, wedding, napoleonic wars, aristocracy, mother daughter relationship, pregnant woman, newborn baby ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century, 18th century, 1790s
Place: italy, europe
Keyword: russian, personal ad

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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, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, couple relations, family relations and soldier mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like The Marquise of O: The King's Whore (1990), Marquis de Sade (1996), Effi Briest (1974), The Leopard (1963), St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The King's Whore (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Austria
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: fatal attraction, royal family, royalty, ancient, girl, american revolution, 007, love triangle, sword fight, couples, state affairs, society ...
Time: 17th century, 18th century, middle ages
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Marquis de Sade (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In 18th century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the infamous Marquis de Sade. Imprisoned for his sordid crimes, the ...
Plot: sex, deviant sex, fetish, loveless marriage, perversion, prostitute, torture, virgin, debauchery, infidelity, prisoner, missing person ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: france
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Effi Briest (1974)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older ...
Style: black and white, art house, postmodern, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: literary, age difference, adultery, women, german history, summer, crazy love, countryside, infidelity, young wife, grownups, naivete ...
Time: 19th century, year 1974, 1890s, 1880s
Place: berlin germany, northern germany, europe, germany, prussia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Leopard (1963)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style: epic, visual, political, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Plot: decadence, revolution, politics, civil war, melancholy, catholic, literary, ambition, death, execution, italian history, battles ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1963, 1800s ...
Place: sicily, italy, corsica, palermo italy, naples italy ...
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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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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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The Green Room (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style: spiritual, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: death, tragic love, memory, spirituality, love story, reporter, amor, trauma, dying and death, world war one, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: france
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25%
Two Hearts as One (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, stylized ...
Plot: husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, flashback, world war two, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1941
Place: europe, bosnia, turkey, kazakhstan
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25%
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Valley of the Bees (1968)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. Her brings her a bowl of flower petals which she starts to throw in the air and then gives out a shriek, as she discovers several ...
Style: cerebral, philosophical, black and white, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot: medieval, treasure hunt, knight, time machine, kingdom, philosophy, spirituality, crusader, existentialism, religion, male nudity, introspection ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, year 1968, 13th century
Place: balkan, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Hanussen (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid ...
Style: sad, esoteric, intelligent, spiritual, serious ...
Plot: world war one, world war two, nazi occultism, uncover truth, nazi, german history, social commentary, occult, interwar period, assassination, hypnosis, swastika ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: germany, eastern europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Holy Land of Tyrol (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. ...
Style: epic, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: revolution, rebellion, tragic love, society, political unrest, injustice, soldier, couple relations, wartime life, rivalry, german history, napoleonic wars ...
Time: 19th century
Place: germany, europe
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23%
Lines of Wellington (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, invasion, wartime life, battle zone, on the run, life is a bitch, military, war, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time: 19th century
Place: portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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22%
Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: This BBC historical drama stars James Purefoy as Beau Brummell, the original sharp-dressed dandy of 18th-century London. A socialite responsible for inventing the modern suit, Brummell befriends and restyles Prince Regent of Wales.
Style: realistic, exciting, tense, sincere, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: destructive relationship, love and romance, love triangle, dishonesty, rise and fall, master and servant, royal family, fashion, royalty, biopic, love, male bonding ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 18th century
Place: england, london
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The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling ...
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: repression, confession, family relations, survival, life is a bitch, spanish civil war, republican, society, soldier, obsession, clergy, love and romance ...
Place: spain, galicia
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Marianna Ucria (1997)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: historical drama
Plot: deaf, childhood trauma, loveless marriage, deaf mute, mute, death of loved one, sicilian, child marriage, country estate, stabbed to death
Time: 18th century
Place: italy, sicily, southern italy, palermo italy
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Fanny (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: france, marseille, south of france
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The Dust of Time (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
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Wuthering Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style: gothic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
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Time: 18th century, 19th century, regency period, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: britain, england, europe
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Style: scenic, romantic, historical drama, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: unrequited love, literary, farm, dalmatian, love, beach, british soldier, women, love story, amor, myth, alienation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1967, 1870s, 1860s
Place: britain, england, europe
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual ...
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Time: 1900s, year 1978, 19th century, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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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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The Amazing Grace (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: John Newton is captain of a slave ship moored off the coast of Nigeria. He stands at a crossroads in his life, his morality and religion at odds with the brutality of his chosen profession. Stepping ashore, he starts on a journey of redemption that ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, epic
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Story of Adele H (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, love, lieutenant, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, downfall, unrequited love, women, stalking, bookstore, mental disorder, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1975, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: france, nova scotia, canada, canada, nova scotia, europe ...
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An Ordinary Execution (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: josef stalin, power relations, head of state, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, dictator, suffering, illness, kgb ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1952
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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Saviors in the Night (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant ...
Style: serious, emotional, tense, realistic, bleak
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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 ...
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Time: 16th century, future, 2010s, medieval times, year 2013
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Germany Pale Mother (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german history, world war, woman, anti war, art, lonely, nazi, post war germany, nazi germany, german woman, drunkenness ...
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Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Les Misérables (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Style: epic, emotional, fairy tale, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, lawyer, redemption, destiny, revenge, rich and poor, christian, broadway, manhunt, nun, boxer, harassment ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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