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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1980)
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Original name: Tajna Nikole Tesle
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
inventor, scientist, biopic, quantum physics, asexual, economist, heroes, prodigy, journalism, escapades, manipulation, danger, inventions and discoveries, human nature, against the odds, genius, friendship, science, virgin, financier, electricity, male female friendship, male protagonist, exploitation, eccentricity ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, scientist, inventor, friendship, science, genius and ambition mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla: Tesla (0000), Among Wolves (2010), Copenhagen (2002), Tesla (2020), Jobs (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A unique factual depiction of Nikola Tesla's life from his early adulthood to his eventual arrival to America in 1886, examining his relationships and interactions with some of history's most important and controversial people including ...
Style:
light
Plot:
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Duration: 113 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
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serious, stylized, factual, inspirational, freeze frame ...
Plot:
inventor, invention, inventions and discoveries, electricity, scientific experiment, rivalry, progress, genius, electrician, scientist, storytelling, science ...
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Duration: 128 min.
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The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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inspirational, serious, factual, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
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entrepreneur, business, creativity, computer, rise to the top, entrepreneurship, biopic, inventor, marketing, inventions and discoveries, prodigy, startup ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, ...
Style:
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Plot:
racism, rebellion, human spirit, self discovery, against the odds, student life, social relations, society, hopes, clergy, life is a bitch, discrimination ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years is told for the first time in a major drama for BBC Two.It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong ...
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
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32%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Style:
cerebral, realistic, factual, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
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In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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