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Banished (2015)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
Style:
serious, costume drama, historical drama, tense, realistic, captivating, period piece, epic, period drama
Plot:
colony, life is a bitch, danger, community, prison, confined, penal colony, moral dilemma, brutality, control, governor, colonialism, survival, ancient, age difference, colonization, prisoner, prison life, soldier, british empire, hardship, convict, settler, punishment, british officer ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place:
australia, england, britain, new south wales, oceania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, captivating, historical drama and realistic films and TV series with plots about society, costume, family relations, life is a bitch, british history, time machine and ancient mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Banished: Jamestown (2017), TURN: Washington's Spies (2014), The Secret River (2015), Against the Wind (1978), Sons of Liberty (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
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suspense, costume drama, disturbing, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 62 min.
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serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
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serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
australia
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100%
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Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
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Mary Mulvane, an 18 year old Irish girl, is transported to New South Wales for seven years for doing little else than protecting her own property. She must endure the horror of transport to Australia, and years of anxiety as a convict. Mary, her ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, historical drama, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
american revolution, human spirit, battles, politics, rebelliousness, political unrest, heroes, state affairs, rebellion, military, revolution, american history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, cornwall, britain
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK
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Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, costume drama, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Country: Australia
Duration: 520 min.
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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: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Plot:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. It is produced by Touchpaper Television part of the RDF Media Group. The series mixes fiction with fact ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 198 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Style:
costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Audience:
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Country: UK, USA
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