Movies like The Mother of Kings

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The Mother of Kings (1987)
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The Mother of Kings (1987)
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: world war two, communism, renaissance, 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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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about world war two, nazi, death, world war, soldier, war and renaissance mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Mother of Kings: The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992), Katyn (2007), Europa Europa (1990), Shivers (1981), Samson (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
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, vodka, nazism, resistance, anti communist, ss, partisan, communism, nkvd, polish history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style: disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, war crime, nazism, polish history, survival, ethnic conflict, holocaust, massacre, murder, courage, idealism, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
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79%
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Europa Europa (1990)
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, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nazi, holocaust, hitler youth, circumcision, war, coming of age, genocide, childhood, survival, wartime, judaism, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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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
Plot: coming of age, exploitation, love letter, renaissance, boy, train, teenage boy, young boy, school, indoctrination, polish history, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Samson (1961)
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, myth, renaissance, escape, persecution, death, hidden identity, party, guilt ...
Place: eastern europe
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Akseli and Elina (1970)
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: family saga, epic, pre war
Plot: family relations, progress, countryside, farm, car, society, socialist, farmer, village, family history, communism, death of son ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
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Austeria (1982)
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
Plot: world war one, renaissance, great war, cossack, male objectification, skinny dipping, lake, burial, fire, extramarital affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violinist ...
Time: year 1914, pre world war one
Place: poland, eastern europe, austria
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Squadron 303 (2018)
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: sincere, exciting
Plot: aerial combat, air force, world war two, aviation, world war, politics, rescue, wartime life, military, battles, danger, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, britain, europe
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Hatred (2016)
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, massacre, murder, nazi occupation, wedding, torture, female protagonist, village, baby, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place: poland
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Death of a President (1977)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until ...
Plot: renaissance, great war, world war two, interwar period, police, painter, prime minister, election, socialism, president, parliament, gallery ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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In the Fog (2012)
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, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, danger, survival, life is a bitch, human nature, wartime life, resistance fighter, nazi, underground ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
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56%
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The Magnate (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
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, dynasty, monarchy, nazism, female nudity, nazi, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, cheating wife, communism, sexually frustrated woman, sexually dissatisfied wife ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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The Birthday (1980)
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, bird, nazi occupation, wealth, polish history, underground movement, male female relationship, twenty something, birthday, soldier, military, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s, year 1943, year 1938 ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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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: family relations, world war two, communism, soldier, village life, family history, village, communist, post war, working class, grudge, lower class ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
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The Constant Factor (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
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
Place: poland, eastern europe, himalaya
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Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
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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: tricky, serious, captivating, clever, intellectual ...
Plot: doctor, meaning of life, cancer, suffering, terminal illness, ex husband ex wife relationship, cynicism, death, illness, fighting illness, life & death, cause and meaning ...
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Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, nordic, murder, aerial bombardment, chaos, killings ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
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Fever (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
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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 ...
Plot: renaissance, magic realism, male female relationship, corruption, prison, police, violence, politics, mental breakdown, terrorism, undercover, revolt ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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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, suspenseful, captivating, sincere
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, loneliness, officer, hiding place, secret, treason, holocaust, wartime life, girl, jewish girl, punishment ...
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1944: Forced to Fight (2015)
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 ...
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The Butcher of Prague (2011)
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: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
Plot: nazi occupation, political repression, world war two, mass murder, holocaust, life is a bitch, heroic mission, wartime life, against humanity, social relations, haunted by the past, genocide ...
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Warsaw 44 (2014)
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, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, love and romance, rebel army, nazism, death, world war, friendship, war, love affair, relationships, young love ...
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Countdown to War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Plot: world war two, world war, war, negotiation, ambassador, dictator, nazi occupation, nazi germany, ultimatum, minister, deception, hitler ...
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The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
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Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
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General Nil (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, army general, trial, secret service, imprisonment, moral dilemma, communism, arrest, assassination, interrogation, prison, death sentence ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
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How to Be Loved (1963)
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: road movie
Plot: world war two, identity, wartime life, airplane, german soldier, rape, theater, murder suspect, flashback, tank, suicide, cigarette smoking ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Style: experimental, crying, period drama
Plot: auschwitz, world war two, holocaust, garden, concentration camp, nazi, nazi officer, genocide, husband wife relationship, love, swastika, river ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1943, year 1942
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Passenger (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story: The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in ...
Style: experimental, odd
Plot: holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, female nudity, concentration camp, nazi, wartime life, prison, women, renaissance, love letter, identity ...
Time: year 1963
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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, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, ...
Style: macaroni combat
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