Movies like Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great (1980)
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Original name: Ο Μεγαλέξαντρος
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - primitive communism, anarchism, chiefdom or kingdom, personality cult - and shows the institutions of property and power in a bad light.
Plot:
anarchist, anarchism, mythology, utopia, greek, bandit, partisan, wrestling, power, countryside, male objectification, property, male nudity, oedipus complex
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1900, 20th century, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
greece, europe, ancient greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and captivating films with plots about politics, male nudity, society, political unrest, anarchist, death and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Alexander the Great: Days of 36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1975), The Hunters (1977), St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972), Metello (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
Plot:
anarchist, poison, hostage, kidnapping, politician, military dictatorship, politics, assassination, execution, interwar period, drug dealer, drug trade ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min.
Story:
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from ...
Style:
road movie, art film, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, male nudity, greek, civil war, anarchist, sex crime, worker, dream, time travel, holocaust, betrayal, murder ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, year 1952, year 1939 ...
Place:
greece, europe, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, West Germany
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse ...
Plot:
world war two, anarchist, post war, partisan, actress, noblewoman, new year's eve, shared dream, publisher, bourgeoisie, punishment, hunter ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
europe, greece
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86%
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, serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
anarchist, utopia, anarchism, chaos, politics, revolution, self discovery, human spirit, moral dilemma, rebellion, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Metello fights his way out from his condition through ...
Plot:
anarchism, working class, anarchist, broken promise, cheating wife, job seeking, neighbor, prison, funeral, strike, repression, orphan ...
Time:
20th century, 1890s
Place:
italy, florence
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
greek, refugee, village, tragic love, wartime life, on the run, orphan, fall in love, genocide, political unrest, politics, self discovery ...
Time:
1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
ancient greece, greece, europe
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59%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; ...
Plot:
countryside, nude, male nudity, male objectification, male star appears nude, murder, love triangle, female nudity, defloration, adultery, clothed male naked male, clothed female naked male ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
quebec
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52%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. ...
Style:
political
Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, state terrorism, labor union, labor strike, political repression, union, anarchy, strike, oppression, train, massacre ...
Place:
patagonia, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style:
political, sad, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, civil war, rebellion, feminism, female warrior, sex, gender, spanish history, working class, utopia ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten ...
Plot:
hotel, father son relationship, hospital, rape, funeral, rain, letter, bee, violin, steam train, public humiliation, male nudity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, atmospheric, epic, historical epic ...
Plot:
family relations, politics, political unrest, intrigue, rivalry, revolution, family life, dishonesty, society, city, palace intrigue, revisionist history ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
spanish civil war, civil war, world war two, fascism, anarchist, anarchism, anti fascist, anti nazi, love story, love affair, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Place:
south of france, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 ...
Plot:
blackout, countryside, death of protagonist, dictatorship
Time:
50s, year 1951, 20th century
Place:
catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882 in Mayerling. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the full story may never be known. This story has been ...
Style:
erotic, gloomy, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
sex with a maid, sexual freedom, erotica, affair, porn, eroticism, repression, assassination, hermaphrodite, sex with sister, exhibitionism, vice ...
Time:
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kastoria, a region in Western Macedonia at the turn of the century. Greeks, Turks, Jews and other nationalities live together under the rule of the Ottoman empire, amid the despair, the uncertainty and the confusion brought about by the 1897 war ...
Plot:
loyalty, partisan, revolution, jewish, greek, captain, death, fishing, family man, turk, church, boat ...
Time:
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Place:
hellas, greece, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
thought provoking, realistic, touching, serious, contemplative
Plot:
peasant, farm, countryside, village, clergy, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, hide and seek, parent child relationship, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, vatican, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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serious, captivating, epic, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
jungle, spanish conquest, amazon rainforest, conquering, treasure hunt, colonial america, amazon, river, gold, exploration, obsession, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
factory, politics, labor union, strike, running from police, prostitution, solidarity, social change, sex, bus, fighting the system, working class ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
italy, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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:
art house, stylized, gloomy, realistic, serious
Plot:
countryside, women, summer, german history, crazy love, age difference, adultery, infidelity, young wife, single father, naivete, grownups ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
northern germany, berlin germany, germany, europe, prussia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The ...
Plot:
latin american history, anarchist, worker, history of chile, city, exploitation, school, train, massacre, horse, socialist, suicide ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter ...
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gloomy, atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
greek mythology, antiquity, ancient history, mythology, ancient, summer, girl, tragedy, king, army, sacrifice, male nudity ...
Place:
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Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
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death, terminal illness, coming of age, art, writers, immigrants, destiny, greek, hospital, catastrophe, brutality, artist ...
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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, thought provoking, controversial, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 176 min.
Story:
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Netherlands' submission for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985
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falsely accused, false evidence, frame up, false accusation, simpleton, revenge, coward, brother brother relationship, political activist, socialist, martyr, wrongful imprisonment ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the ...
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Plot:
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Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci whom he keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexually abuses her as well. Beatrice then plots with her stepmother, ...
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, ...
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