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Long Shadows (2008)
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Long Shadows (2008)
Original name: Schattenwelt
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.
Plot: terrorism, raf, revenge, guilt, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, political and suspenseful films with plots about terrorism, revenge, terrorist, politics, family relations, murder and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Long Shadows: Lesser Evil (2006), A Mother's Justice (1991), The Long Silence (1993), La casa de mi padre (2008), The State I Am In (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lesser Evil (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Karen finally gathers up the courage to go to the police after she is raped, she's shocked to learn that the cops won't do a thing about it! So this gutsy gal goes up against a federal law-enforcement agency in order to make sure her ...
Plot: rape, love, woman with a gun, fashion designer, terrorism, al qaeda, rape and revenge, revenge, post september 11 2001, plastic surgery, terrorist, witness protection program ...
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95%
A Mother's Justice (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist...
Plot: revenge, rape, obsession, mother daughter relationship, guilt, rape and revenge, rapist, victim, rape victim, bait
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94%
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several ...
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, abduction, italian history, hijacker, sea, terrorist
Time: 80s
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87%
The Long Silence (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband is murdered and, unfortunately, their fears are realized. ...
Plot: criminal, husband, terrorism, corruption, mafia, judge, italian woman, fighting the system
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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La casa de mi padre (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
Plot: terrorism, politician, uncle nephew relationship, getting home, eta terrorist group, dying man, exile, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The State I Am In (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, grownups, youth, love and romance, family problems, family relations, teenage love, parent child relationship, puberty, fall in love, eccentric family, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Rebel (1973)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on ...
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: terrorism, fbi, business, group, bomber
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.3
 675
The Informant (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, anglo irish relations, trouble, spy, freedom, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
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71%
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Fly, Dakota, Fly! (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A British military transport plane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again despite knowing that Britishers are their enemies.
Plot: royal air force, post war, japanese woman, crash landing, raf
Time: year 1946
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70%
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Godfather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A 2012 Kannada film
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: revenge, father and son, mother and daughter, dysfunctional family, family problems, identity crisis, brother brother relationship, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, relationship problems, guilt ...
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65%
 6.2
 2K
Strip Search (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
Style: realistic, serious, political, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: terrorism, male nudity, confined, government agency, life is a bitch, captivity, manipulation, male pubic hair, politics, prison, nudity, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Marianne & Juliane (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic ...
Style: political, serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: years of lead, feminist, terrorism, raf, politics, marxist, woman peeing, prison escape, sisters, solidarity, prison, siblings ...
Time: 70s, year 1981
Place: germany, west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Assignment Berlin (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: no overview
Plot: armenian genocide, courtroom drama, crime against humanity, mass murder, lawyer, jury, assassination, justice, genocide, world war one, judge, vengeance ...
Time: year 1915
Place: ottoman empire, turkey, berlin germany, armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Il caso Moro (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
Plot: terrorism, raf, politics, years of lead, domestic terrorism, italian politics, assassination, man killed, kidnapping, murder, politician, prime minister ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York
Plot: fire, terrorist, terrorism, rescue, skyscraper, bomb, fireman, world trade center manhattan new york city, explosion
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Sweet Revenge (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion goes wrong and the girl dies. To protect his ...
Plot: revenge, abortion, army, false accusation, u.s. army, fashion designer, pregnancy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Fire (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One day, someone puts a bomb on Carlos car and kill his wife and leaves his daughter of 10 years old without legs. Eleven years later, he lives in Barcelona with his daughter but he never forgot the past, the hate, the suffering of that accident. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot: vengeance, haunted by the past, terrorism, traumatic experience, terrorist group, rivalry, obsessive quest, family relations, parents and children, police officer, isolated house, terrorist attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 2K
Finsterworld (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
Style: psychological, tricky, suspense, road movie, absurd ...
Plot: parent child relationship, couples, school, bribery, loneliness, concentration camp, forest, life & death, fetish, metaphor, atmosphere, conversation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Detroit (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Edzard is on his way from Berlin to Braunschweig to visit his family. During the trip the reason of his visit becomes clear, or doesn't it? During the trip he meets several people, most of them more than once. How this is possible becomes not ...
Style: road movie
Plot: dead brother, hitchhiking, old friend, a vision, speech, bathroom, suicide note, jumping on a bed, audio cassette
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Prager Botschaft (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Plot: iron curtain, berlin wall, stasi, mass hysteria, camp, protest, embassy, politics, politician, propaganda, police, fence ...
Time: 80s
Place: east germany
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51%
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Love Rome (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Vignettes about four different couples in New York City coming to terms with their lives six months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Style: anthology, psychological, thrilling, captivating, semi documentary
Plot: life is a bitch, terror, terrorism, problem, multiple storylines, political activist, 911, couples
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Mogadischu (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: terrorism, terrorist attack, passenger, daring rescue, confined, danger, airplane, hysteria, raf, pilot, mossad, hijacking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: germany, africa, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Segreti segreti (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and ...
Plot: italian politics, terrorism, italian woman, earthquake, italian history, communist, mother daughter relationship, murder, years of lead, leftist
Time: 80s
Place: southern italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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A Little Bit of Freedom (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and dreams of one day living in Australia. Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt), meanwhile, is a Kurdish ...
Plot: gay, revenge, kurd, lgbt, youth, coming of age, immigrant, obsession, young man, interracial, oppression, exile ...
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
La diosa del puerto (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later...
Plot: woman in a bikini, female fight, guilt, women in prison, lust, rape, mother daughter relationship, suicide, rape and revenge, child born of rape, murder, female protagonist ...
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47%
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 6K
September 11 (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Style: disturbing, stylized, talky, intellectual, factual ...
Plot: terrorism, war on terror, 9/11, politics, justice, skyscraper, state affairs, danger, innocence lost, life is a bitch, injustice, love affair ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, usa, new york, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Excluded (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents ...
Plot: teenager, criminal, revolution, terrorism, rebel, theft, murder, male nudity, axe murder, erection, ex nazi, nudity ...
Time: 1950s
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Female Slaves Revenge (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth.
Style: political
Plot: revenge, torture, bondage, exploitation, execution, slave, high heels, midnight
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Yasmin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: immigrant, family relations, social differences, culture clash, false accusation, terrorism, life is a bitch, society, injustice, religions or cults, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: britain, pakistan, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Second Time (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot: terrorism, mind game, hidden identity, stalking, river, brother sister relationship, jail, communism, university, years of lead, shot in the head
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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