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Rosewater (2014)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison. Making his directorial debut, Jon Stewart tells the tale of Bahari's months-long imprisonment and interrogation in this powerful and affecting docudrama featuring a potent and performance by Gael García Bernal recounting Bahari's efforts to maintain his hope and his sanity in the face of isolation and persecution-through memories of his family, recollections of the music he loves, and thoughts of his wife and unborn child.
Style:
brutal, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, tense, captivating, political, social, novela, powerful ...
Plot:
prison, journalism, brutality, macabre, reporter, violent, torture, propaganda, investigation, adaptation, captivity, twists and turns, life is a bitch, danger, false accusation, solitary, islam, biopic, anguish, writers, dictator, hijab, 9/11, real life, political intrigue ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
iran, middle east
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 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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Duration: 125 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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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 104 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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Country: USA
Duration: 90 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: Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 213 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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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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Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 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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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
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Story:
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