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The Mother of Kings (1987)
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Original name: Matka Królów
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
Style:
intellectual, pre war
Plot:
renaissance, world war two, communism, nazi, politics, death, torture, family relations, neighbor, childbirth, post war, poverty, single mother, courage, communist, sacrifice, bravery, letter, widow, collaborator, jail, false accusation, death of father, black market, suffering ...
Time:
year 1953, year 1933, year 1956
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Mother of Kings
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, serious, bleak and realistic films with plots about world war two, death, nazi, nazi occupation, war, renaissance and communism mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Mother of Kings: The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992), The Magnate (1987), Katyn (2007), Europa Europa (1990), Fever (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot:
world war two, renaissance, post war, patriot, vodka, nkvd, nazism, resistance, communism, anti communist, partisan, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, epic, sincere
Plot:
napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, renaissance, russian history, nobleman, polish history, napoleonic era, imperial russia, destructive relationship, vengeance, heroes, war ...
Time:
1810s, 19th century
Place:
poland, lithuania, eastern europe, russia, europe
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85%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, West Germany, East Germany
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Style:
family saga
Plot:
renaissance, nazism, monarchy, dynasty, female nudity, nazi, aristocracy, brotherhood, mine, palace, incest, man in a wheelchair ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and ...
Plot:
world war two, renaissance, psychiatric hospital, european, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, doctor, nazi occupation, sudden ending, psychiatric patient, experiment, suicide by poison ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style:
political, retro, realistic, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, circumcision, male nudity, woman peeing, hitler youth, children in wartime, physical exam, war, coming of age, genocide, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
Similarity:
71%
321
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
Style:
tension, historical drama, bleak, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
bomb, anarchism, revolution, terrorism, political violence, political oppression, underground movement, paranoia, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, conspiracy, sacrifice ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
71%
572
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
Plot:
coming of age, love letter, renaissance, little boy, exploitation, boy, indoctrination, polish history, police officer, prisoner of war camp, death, politics ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
70%
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261
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, ...
Style:
heroic
Plot:
world war two, peplum, holocaust, gladiator, renaissance, myth, escape, persecution, student, guilt, party, prison ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Style:
epic, family saga, pre war
Plot:
female nudity, boy, skinny dipping, right wing, extremist, russo finnish war, right wing extremist, rural setting, socialist, car, farm, farmer ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Style:
exciting, sincere
Plot:
aerial combat, air force, world war two, world war, aviation, soldier, courage, wartime life, danger, politics, rescue, battles ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, britain, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, human nature, danger, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, fog, resistance fighter, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, world war two, war atrocity, murder, massacre, brutality, wedding, cheating wife, homicide, hanged woman, childbirth, nazi occupation ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Style:
suspense, psychological, touching, family saga, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, soldier, communism, male female relationship, lower class, working class, family history, post war, hate, communist, village ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
52%
7K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
drunken man, suicide, little girl, wartime, corpse, ss, swastika, nazi occupation, murder, police officer, accidental death, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
antwerp
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, bird, rebellion, autobiography, bribe, resistance, stepmother stepson relationship, german occupation, coming of age, rich, tragic event ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939, 1930s, year 1944, year 1943 ...
Place:
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723
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks.
Style:
freeze frame, bliss
Plot:
world war one, breast feeding, cossack, great war, renaissance, faith, nude young male, nude boy, sex scene, group, sneeze, public nudity ...
Time:
year 1914, pre world war one
Place:
poland, eastern europe, austria
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, political repression, world war two, mass murder, genocide, holocaust, life is a bitch, heroic mission, wartime life, social relations, against humanity, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
prague, czech republic, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
Style:
existential, captivating, serious, tricky, clever ...
Plot:
doctor, cynicism, meaning of life, suffering, cancer, renaissance, terminal illness, ex husband ex wife relationship, death, life & death, illness, fighting illness ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
46%
518
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere
Plot:
nazi occupation, world war two, officer, loneliness, hiding place, secret, treason, jewish girl, girl, wartime life, holocaust, sacrifice ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, air raid, nazism, gestapo, royal air force, eye, bombing, nordic, military, murder, killing ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
world war two, nazi, military, eastern front, nazi soldier, german army, soldier, enemy, death, retreat, battles, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
estonia, europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Style:
realistic, romantic, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, rebel army, nazi occupation, love and romance, nazism, death, world war, shoah, friendship, love story, friends, relationships ...
Time:
year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
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, realistic, serious, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot:
strike, renaissance, protest, communism, labor, revolution, communist, union, identity, fictional history, kung fu, non violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, year 1981
Place:
poland, eastern europe, ussr, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story:
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style:
realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
war, world war two, winter, invasion, infantry, cold weather, wartime, military, world war, battlefield, tank, politics ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union ...
Similarity:
42%
218
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:
russian history, protest, overprotective mother, oedipus complex, husband, woman, train station, secret police, worker, murder of mother, demonstration, russian soldier ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union, siberia, russia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot:
nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, escape, world war two, wartime life, wartime, jew persecution, war violence, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
central europe, germany
Similarity:
41%
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