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The Ear (1970)
4K
Original name: Ucho
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse than being carted off to jail
Style:
political, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, biting, suspense, tension
Plot:
communism, renaissance, spy, night, election, totalitarian regime, suspicion, modernism, politics, life is a bitch, couples, political intrigue, totalitarianism, family problems, satire, bishop, crumbling marriage, promotion, dishonesty, government facility, state affairs, unfulfillment, domestic disturbance, couple relations, party ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe, russia, prague, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, couples, husband wife relationship, politics, state affairs, couple relations and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Ear: The Confession (1970), Walking Too Fast (2009), Triple Agent (2004), The Whistle Blower (1986), Fail Safe (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Style:
political, political thriller, cynical, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot:
politics, communism, interrogation, torture, spy, dictator, anti communist, dictatorship, solitary, cold war, trial, communist ...
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Place:
czechoslovakia, france, czech republic, central europe, prague ...
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Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style:
tense, political, political thriller, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, politics, nuclear threat, u.s. air force, military, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, bomber, nightmare, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, new york, washington d.c., usa, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, betrayal, secret agent, cuban missile crisis, undercover, surveillance, conspiracy, politics, kgb, government agency ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, london
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers.Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
chase, uncover truth, dishonesty, disorder, obsession, state affairs, life turned upside down, eye, nordic, on the road, chases and races, hit and run ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, intense, political, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Movie in collections
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark, copenhagen, europe
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, political, talky, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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32%
283
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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