Movies like Black Death
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Black Death (2010)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Style:
gothic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, rough, exciting, brutal, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
medieval, plague, monk, knight, inquisition, danger, village, clergy, obsessive quest, mercenary, dealing with death, heroic mission, adventure, deadly, good versus evil, heroes, sword and shield, sword and sorcery, witch, supernatural romance, supernatural, black magic, heretic, supernatural ability, afterlife ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, stylized, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about danger, rivalry, escapades, heroes, adventure, brutality and storytelling mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Black Death: Season of the Witch (2011), Solomon Kane (2009), The Witch (2015), The 13th Warrior (1999), Dark Relic (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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teens
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
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gothic, rough, bleak, atmospheric, exciting ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
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dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, gothic ...
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witch, supernatural, wilderness, family relations, religion, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, family in danger, insanity, imaginary, guilt, violence ...
Time:
17th century, 1600s
Place:
new england, usa, new hampshire
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In AD 922, Arab courtier, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North to combat a terror that slaughters Vikings and devours their flesh.
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vikings, barbarian, battles, mission, viking, adventure, danger, heroic mission, sword and sorcery, heroes, fish out of water, violence ...
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Place:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse…
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stylized, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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heroic mission, good versus evil, deadly creature, danger, heroes, supernatural, deadly, curses spells and rituals, battles, adventure, obsessive quest, adventurer ...
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Duration: 139 min.
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Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
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Returning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK, Ukraine, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's ...
Style:
intellectual, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
clergy, investigation, monastery, monk, uncover truth, riddles and clues, god or devil, murder, temptation, execution, danger, serial killer ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A survivor of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to save his clan from from Celtic raiders. A sequel to the 2011 film, "Ironclad."
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
This is a remake of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He find England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Switzerland, UK, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
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stylized, rough, atmospheric, suspense, bleak ...
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28%
Genre: Action, History, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom.
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rough, suspenseful, serious, epic, bleak ...
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28%
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Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that ...
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.
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time travel, tunnel, plague, adventure, heroic mission, rescue, young heroes, fish out of water, supernatural ability, follow your dream, danger, destiny ...
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27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 143 min.
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When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on ...
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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27%
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Story:
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27%
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Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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