Movies like The President 2014
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The President (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and begins a journey to discover his country in the company of his five-year-old grandson. The two travel across the lands that the President once governed. Now, disguised as a street musician to avoid being recognized, the former dictator comes into contact with his people, which he comes to know from a different point of view.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, political, sad, cult classic, biting, suspense, interesting
Plot:
political unrest, escapades, family relations, on the run, head of state, hidden identity, state affairs, sex, distopia, military, fictional country, reflection, violent, on the road, rebellion, chases and races, society, satire, fish out of water, cross country, dancing, prostitute, beach, poverty, little girl ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The President
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and touching films with plots about society, political unrest, state affairs, family relations, life is a bitch, rebellion and politics mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The President: Orange Honey (2012), Tar Angel (2001), The Prize (2011), At Five in the Afternoon (2003), Interview (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
soldier, against the rules, rebelliousness, moral dilemma, rebellion, fighting the system, life turned upside down, society, military, dishonesty, legal, state affairs ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
spain, andalusia
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288
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
computer virus, muslim, family relations, rebelliousness, uncover truth, rebellion, society, on the run, youth, life is a bitch, political unrest, missing person ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
school, dictatorship, little girl, secret, military, rebelliousness, family in danger, parents and children, political unrest, repression, family relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
argentina, latin america
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66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, black comedy ...
Plot:
drug use, rebellion, couples, rivalry, legal, media, politics, society, state affairs, confession, arrest, interview ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, father son relationship, on the run, parents and children, custody, family relations, feral man, parents separation, hidden identity, teenage life, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A poor silk weaver promises his wife to dress their newborn daughter in a silk saree for her marriage. Facing systemic oppression and the vicissitudes of his fortune, he struggles to keep his word.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, jail, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes, political unrest, fighting the system, idealism, revolution, society, village ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, racism, working class, life is a bitch, interracial relations, social differences, family relations, social decay, family problems, society, incest, apartheid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, sad ...
Plot:
terrorism, danger, airport, political unrest, terrorist bombing, conspiracy, society, homecoming, satire, disorder, vengeance, nothing goes right ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
egypt, iraq, new york, usa, africa ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Haiti
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, political
Plot:
culture clash, haunted by the past, immigrant, family relations, social relations, life is a bitch, society, single parent, political unrest, blaxploitation, couple relations, under the surface ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
haiti, africa, usa, new york
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
“Soldier of God” A film by W. D. Hogan From The New York Times Director W. D. Hogan‘s sweeping period epic “Soldier of God” unfurls in the Middle East of the late Twelfth Century. As the story opens, the Knights Templar, a religious ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, epic
Plot:
knights templar, medieval, military, escapades, obsessive quest, heroes, political intrigue, royal family, political unrest, state affairs, clergy, heroic mission ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, 11th century
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
54%
971
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
FIX takes you from Beverly Hills to Watts, and places in between, in one day, as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, semi serious, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, obsessive quest, on the road, family relations, escapades, life is a bitch, drug abuse, club, clubbing, chases and races, drug dealing, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, teenage life, satire, family problems, lifestyle, youth, society, hopes, parents and children, dysfunctional family, suburbs, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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52%
767
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.
Style:
humorous, realistic, psychological, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, estrangement, unsupportive spouse, old couple, prostitute, on the run, night, orphan, letter, debt, blind woman, fish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taipei
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot:
apartheid, missing person, politics, courtroom drama, state affairs, rivalry, haunted by the past, injustice, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
jungle, captivity, race against time, escapades, rescue, confined, danger, rebellion, political unrest, baby, human spirit, conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, atmospheric, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, love affair, lovers reunited, homecoming, soldier, unfulfillment, politics, aging, elderly, hopes, political unrest, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, china, asia
Similarity:
46%
456
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
vietnam war, swing, girl, revolution, politics, rebellion, militant, political unrest, teenage life, life is a bitch, state affairs, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1970, year 1966, year 1964, year 1965 ...
Place:
peru, san francisco, guatemala
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, political ...
Plot:
riddles and clues, society, women, hardcore, propaganda, communism, morality, politician, politics, introspection, social differences, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
674
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia, Germany, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
friendship, village, idealism, revolution, haunted by the past, society, rebellion, political unrest, state affairs, medical school, rich and poor, african ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, ethiopia, germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, terrorist, politics, revolution, murder, dictator, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, state affairs, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2003, year 1978
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
43%
279
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family business, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, workplace, fish out of water, society, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfillment, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous
Plot:
politics, ambition, rise to the top, political corruption, redemption, political conspiracy, rivalry, campaign, state affairs, family relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
40%
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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:
39%
800
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, society, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, youth, couples, fall in love, political unrest, culture clash, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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