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Janosik: A True Story (2009)
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Original name: Janosik. Prawdziwa historia
Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure
Country: Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, crying, contemplative
Plot:
mother son relationship, terrorist, male nudity, european history, crime spree, soldier, friendship between men, criminal as protagonist, friendship, politics, death of protagonist, drunkenness, crime and punishment, gangster, rape, female rapist, female on male rape, outlaw, witch, prison, wolf, bandit, thief, fight, mountain ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
poland, former yugoslavia, central europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about female nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, sex scene, bare breasts, death and murder mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Janosik: A True Story: 3 Seasons in Hell (2009), The Profiteer (1974), May (2008), Day for My Love (1977), An Unlikely Romance (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
prague, central europe
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Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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psychotronic, costume drama, period drama
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Time:
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Place:
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crying, freeze frame
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to ...
Plot:
female masturbation, sex, female pubic hair, bare breasts, male pubic hair, bare butt, nudity, hairy chested man, unfaithful husband, car accident, male nudity, voyeurism ...
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 287 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, soviet union, europe, lithuania, warsaw poland ...
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Style:
cult classic, epic, fairy tale, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 5th century, year 1981, 6th century ...
Place:
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47%
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Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, controversial
Plot:
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Country: Philippines
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Plot:
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Place:
the philippines
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, sexual, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, impotent husband, kurd, naked breasts, male pubic hair, bare chested male, che guevara, bare breasts, wounded, nudity, cutting down a tree ...
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Story:
Pinku from 1974.
Style:
naughty
Plot:
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Story:
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captivating, tense, disturbing, sincere
Plot:
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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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Story:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
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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