Movies like 1900
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1900 (1976)
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Original name: Novecento
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, serious, realistic, captivating, political, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, italian history, politics, world war two, revolution, brutality, friendship, socialist, communism, class struggle, worker, peasant, idealism, execution, male nudity, betrayal, repression, post war, socialism, countryside, resistance, war, fall in love, leadership, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s, victorian era, 20th century, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
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Most similar movies to 1900
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and talky films with plots about runaway, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, death, brutality and culture clash mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like 1900: The Last Emperor (1987), Sunshine (1999), Baaria (2009), The Leopard (1963), The Conformist (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style:
epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing, emotional ...
Plot:
childhood, world war two, chinese history, royalty, revolution, prison, drug addiction, emperor, interrogation, empress, politics, eunuch ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1910s, 50s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, political, enigmatic, talky ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish, anti semitism, world war two, nazi, sex scene, society, political unrest, family life, siblings relations, politics, wartime ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s ...
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, politics, fascism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, communism, election, mafia, injustice, small town life ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, emotional ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, anti semitism, jewish, assassination, tennis, family relations, unrequited love, brother sister relationship, family life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
italy, poland, germany, israel, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ...
Style:
epic, cerebral, political, visually appealing, gloomy ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, melancholy, catholic, ambition, death, italian history, battles, character study, culture clash, childhood ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
italy, sicily, vatican, rome italy, palermo italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, reflective, breathtaking, philosophical ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, sexuality, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, ambush, child molestation ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style:
political, talky, epic, dramatic, sexy ...
Plot:
french revolution, revolution, politics, french history, colonialism, death row, idealism, political unrest, friendship, freedom, conspiracy, murder ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1930s, 1790s, 1780s
Place:
france, paris france, poland, spain, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Style:
political, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
revolution, mining, art, politics, labor union, working class, fighting the system, anarchist, unemployment, nude, love, justice ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france, tokyo, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills ...
Style:
political, surreal, captivating, experimental, breathtaking ...
Plot:
rebellion, propaganda, politics, political unrest, prostitution, state affairs, society, revolution, poverty, protest, power struggle, coup d'etat ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
cuba, tokyo, latin america, havana cuba, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Style:
political, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
politics, adoption, family relations, uncover truth, society, revolution, parents and children, state affairs, political unrest, haunted by the past, secret, intrigue ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
argentina, latin america, spain, buenos aires argentina, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style:
political, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, communism, demonstration, children, classmate, social differences ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, argentina, south america, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few ...
Style:
bleak, sexy, rough, visually appealing, road movie ...
Plot:
religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, liberation theology, nude, french, death, poverty, christian, corruption, justice ...
Time:
19th century, 1920s, 20th century, 1890s, turn of the century
Place:
poland, tokyo, berlin germany, belgium, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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:
20th century, 19th century, 90s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
italy, vatican, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between ...
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, meditative, visually appealing ...
Plot:
monk, monastery, faith, religion, clergy, muslim, christian, islam, courage, idealism, hostage, evacuation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
algeria, france, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style:
political, bleak, sexy, bloody, thought provoking ...
Plot:
prison, lawyer, terrorist, working class, women, politics, betrayal, british, ira, human spirit, irish history, irish republican army ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style:
neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot:
poverty, unemployment, prostitution, prostitute, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, post world war two, 50s, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, tokyo, japan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style:
tense, realistic, factual, political, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, intrigue, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, suspense, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, year 1958, year 1961 ...
Place:
usa, cuba, berlin germany, washington d.c., latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, erotic, disturbing, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
torture, sex, rape, obsession, libertine, sexual perversion, sexual abuse, sexual torture, brutality, kidnapping, fascism, atrocity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under ...
Style:
disturbing, stylized, psychological, biting, tense ...
Plot:
french revolution, art, politics, insanity, revolution, sex maniac, fighting the system, psychopath, mental illness, murder, suspense, violence ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1790s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his ...
Style:
emotional, stylized, sexy, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
musician, music, artist, art, older man younger man relationship, shoemaker, male nudity, classical music, death, composer, orchestra, love ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. ...
Style:
political, erotic, intense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
sex scandal, betrayal, spy, politics, lust, member of parliament, prostitute, british, social decay, social differences, rise and fall, suicide ...
Time:
60s, 50s, year 1962, year 1963, year 1961 ...
Place:
england, london, california, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. ...
Style:
political, inspirational, talky, factual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
revolution, communism, sacrifice, idealism, leadership, dictatorship, suspense, hopes, rebel, historical character, political unrest, downfall ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1967, year 1966
Place:
bolivia, cuba, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western ...
Style:
talky, thought provoking, political, tense, harsh ...
Plot:
filmmaking, politics, culture clash, society, rebellion, demonstration, prejudice, audition, unlikely friendships, mentor, self discovery, protest ...
Time:
year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, south america, spain, california, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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, sexy, fairy tale, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, lawyer, redemption, destiny, rich and poor, jewish, nun, boxer, life, survival, catastrophe, end of the world ...
Place:
france, paris france, germany, normandy, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot:
terrorism, racism, politics, fighting the system, rebellion, police brutality, civil rights, apartheid, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, social problems ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1980
Place:
africa, south africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
melancholic, epic, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, friendship, mafia, prohibition, gunfight, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, criminal heroes, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, italy, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Style:
political, thought provoking, intense, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
revolution, cuban revolution, communism, violence, military, idealism, dictatorship, politics, execution, fighting the system, state affairs, leadership ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1957, year 1958
Place:
cuba, latin america, mexico city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
erotic, realistic, sexy, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, friendship, homosexual, lgbtq, small town, homosexuality, betrayal, bittersweet, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, africa, algeria, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, serious, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, eroticism, sexuality, dangerous attraction, nazi, s&m, guilt, concentration camp, bdsm, sex, sexual abuse, destructive relationship ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 1940s, 70s, year 1957 ...
Place:
vienna, italy, berlin germany, tokyo, hungary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
21K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, harsh, rough, serious ...
Plot:
shakespeare, ancient, brutality, justice, ancient rome, secrets, sacrifice, war, head of state, state affairs, revenge, violence spree ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
rome italy, ancient greece, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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