Movies like Romance of a Horsethief
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Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
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Original name: Romansa konjokradice
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things. Written by Guy Bellinger (IMDB)
Plot:
cossack, horse thief, horse, thief, village, russian empire, czar, male nudity, russian army, peasant, revolution, resistance, polish
Place:
russia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, epic and captivating films with plots about revolution, horse, village, murder, society, battles and military mostly in Drama, History and Adventure genres. Some movies like Romance of a Horsethief: Taras Bulba (1962), The Youth of Peter the Great (1980), Rebellious «Orion» (1979), A Necklace for My Beloved (1971), Dauria (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 77 min.
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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69%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Place:
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62%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
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Duration: 182 min.
Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Story:
Between passengers of the steamship there is a dispute on, whether that there are in Russia righteous persons? Nobody wants to tell about the life. And only one priest, though warns that he "the big sinner", decides to tell the history.
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mazeppa is a 1993 French drama film directed by Bartabas. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
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Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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