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We, the Undersigned (1981)
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We, the Undersigned (1981)
Original name: Мы, нижеподписавшиеся
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: While a newly-built industrial bakery can produce bread, a three-person committee refused to sign acceptance documents citing numerous deficiencies. Lyonya Shindin, who works for a construction company, which built the bakery, follows the committee members traveling by train. His goal is to convince them to sign the documents before they arrive home. Ready to do it at any cost Lyonya starts scheming, and puts on acts to bond with committee members. Yet Yuri Devyatov, the chairman, is unmoved. Eventually Lyonya comes clean, and explains Devyatov that everything goes way beyond the unfinished bakery: the whole incident will be used to sack an honest and talented manager, who was forced to work on the bakery amid a lack of resources facing an impossible deadline. Devyatov learns that he was used as a pawn making a perfect way to deal with someone's enemies using an impartial man of stellar reputation.
Plot: politics, construction, industry, construction worker, train, committee, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, taking off shoes, female director
Place: soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, realistic, bleak and humorous films with plots about soviet, politics, female stockinged legs, pantyhose, love, family relations and female nudity mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like We, the Undersigned: Mr. Bharath (1986), Lyubov Yarovaya (1970), You and Me (1971), Love Letters (1999), Melodies of a White Night (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mr. Bharath (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Mr.Bharath is a Tamil film is directed by SP. Muthuraman. The film stars Rajnikant, Sathyaraj, Ambika, Goundamani, S. V. Shekhar and others. The plot is about a son's revenge against his father. It is a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Trishul ...
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Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
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You and Me (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
Plot: circus, ice hockey, surgeon, crisis of conscience, embassy, doctor, train, neurosurgeon, soviet
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia
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Love Letters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: United States Senator, Andrew Ladd, revisits his life after a woman he loved, but only wrote letters to, dies. Having met as children the two grow apart as he enters politics and she aspires to be an artist. While success follows him, she has a more ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching
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Time: 90s
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Melodies of a White Night (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Plot: death of husband, love, concert, pianist, composer, homeland, train conductor
Place: soviet union, japan
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 65 min.
Story: A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
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Men and Beasts (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 178 min.
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Plot: capitalism, concentration camp, corruption, mother daughter relationship, red army, nazism, car accident, road trip, family relations, past, nazi, daughter ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, argentina, germany, east germany, ussr
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Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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Place: soviet union, ussr
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Country: Soviet Union
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Ataka (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young lieutenant arrives to tank regiment stationed in the Central Asia. He uses unusual for Soviet Army methods to train his soldiers. It predictably leads to tensions with superiors and subordinates. However later it pays back during live ...
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Place: soviet union
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
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