Movies like 1900
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1900 (1976)
29K
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, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic, captivating, saga, political, period piece, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, sex, socialist, brutality, worker, working class, strike, catholic church, landowner, resistance, idealism, execution, love, fight, fascist, menage a trois, evil ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s, 20th century, victorian era ...
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, political and thought provoking films with plots about politics, death, society, family relations, murder, revolution and idealism mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like 1900: The Conformist (1970), The Last Emperor (1987), Baaria (2009), Sunshine (1999), The Leopard (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, breathtaking, political, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Plot:
childhood, chinese history, world war two, biopic, revolution, emperor, politics, prison, eunuch, drug addiction, communism, symbolism ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1900s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
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75%
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, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, small town life, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 60s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
16K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK
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:
costume drama, erotic, saga, family saga, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, sex scene, politics, love affair, political unrest, world war two, illicit affair, fascism, nazi, family life, siblings relations, jewish culture ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, israel, sarajevo, serbia ...
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:
political, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, italian fascism, nazi germany, anti semitism, brother sister relationship, assassination, tennis, family relations, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970 ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, germany, israel ...
Similarity:
31%
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, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
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28%
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:
25%
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, gloomy, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, biopic, liberation theology, belgian history, strike, justice, death, corruption, poverty ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1900s, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
belgium, europe, flanders, poland, tokyo ...
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25%
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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, anthology, art film ...
Plot:
french revolution, revolutionary, french history, revolution, politics, biopic, execution, guillotine, terror, death row, power struggle, french politics ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, 1790s, year 1983, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, poland, eastern europe, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 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, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
labor union, strike, politics, working class, union, resistance, working conditions, big business, conflict, european, employment, labor ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century, year 1963, 1800s, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, turin italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, touching, social, hispanic ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, hopes, injustice, spanish history, social decay, false accusation, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, society, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1938, year 1939 ...
Place:
spain, morocco, catalonia, europe, barcelona ...
Similarity:
24%
13K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 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, dictatorship, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
Similarity:
24%
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, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
Similarity:
50%
12K
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, black and white, surreal, captivating, experimental ...
Plot:
rebellion, dictatorship, prostitution, propaganda, revolution, poverty, dictator, politics, farmer, cuban revolution, coup d'etat, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
cuba, soviet union, ussr, latin america, havana cuba ...
Similarity:
23%
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, anthology, philosophical ...
Plot:
mining, outdoor sex, revolution, art, politics, business, french history, union, capitalism, fighting the system, anarchist, unemployment ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993
Place:
france, europe, flanders, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, biopic, world war, anarchist, solar eclipse, italian fascism, priest, peasant ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1936, 1930s, year 1935
Place:
rome italy, naples italy, italy, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to ...
Style:
political, neorealism, poliziottesco, detective, neo noir ...
Plot:
terrorist, politics, revolution, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, world war two, trial, sicilian, passion, mafia, death, italian gangster ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, 50s, 60s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, europe, palermo italy ...
Similarity:
22%
27K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Chile, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition ...
Style:
political, cerebral, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dictatorship, campaign, democracy, protest, politics, advertising, underdog, dictator, political conspiracy, society, exile, rebellion ...
Time:
80s, year 2012, year 1988, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
chile, latin america, santiago chile, south america, venezuela ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, humorous, saga, family saga ...
Plot:
politics, romantic rivalry, working class, coming of age, fascism, family relations, rebelliousness, love and romance, social relations, parents and children, brother brother relationship, communism ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
22%
10K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief ...
Style:
political, independent film, talky, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
labor union, racism, working class, coal mining, small town, shootout, mining, coal mine, strike, revolution, revolutionary, american history ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
west virginia, appalachia, virginia, usa
Similarity:
22%
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, social, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, spanish history, civil war, rebellion, revolution, radical, female soldier, revolt, strike ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939, year 1936 ...
Place:
barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe, spain, basque country ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion ...
Style:
historical drama, anthology, serious, realistic, period drama ...
Plot:
nobility, royalty, royal family, king of france, libertine, female nudity, nobleman, temptation, peasant, horse, forest, jesuit ...
Time:
18th century, year 1975
Place:
france, versailles, europe, sardinia, brittany ...
Similarity:
21%
398K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
Similarity:
21%
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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:
unusual plot structure, sincere, thought provoking, meditative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
monk, monastery, faith, islam, terrorist, religion, clergy, muslim, war violence, christian, peace, catholic ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
algeria, middle east, morocco, maghreb, palestine ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
chess, peasant, terrorism, mafia, death, funeral, family relations, hopes, farm, social worker, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
Similarity:
20%
252K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
39K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Style:
emotional, period piece, lyrical, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
politics, dancing, rise to power, political unrest, broadway, music, death, biopic, dictator, glamour, military coup, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945, 1950s ...
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america, italy ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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:
sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, tragic love, wartime life, on the run, genocide, political unrest, fall in love, politics, self discovery, exile, revolution ...
Time:
year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place:
greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
Similarity:
20%
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