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Orderers (1974)
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Original name: Les ordres
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Plot:
prison, police, politics, terrorism, false accusation, martial law, french canadian
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, montreal quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about politics, terrorism, state affairs, society, female nudity, life is a bitch and french canadian mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Orderers: October 1970 (2006), Fever (1981), October (1994), The Plouffe Family (1981), February 15, 1839 (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 480 min.
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Story:
A dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Plot:
kidnapping, terrorism, politics, independence movement, ethnic conflict
Time:
70s, year 1970
Place:
quebec, canada
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
Plot:
prison, violence, politics, corruption, police, male female relationship, mental breakdown, terrorism, revolt, undercover, tragic event
Place:
poland
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79%
825
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was ...
Style:
sad, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, murder, kidnapping, terrorist, good versus evil, confined, society, rebellion, state affairs, politics, revolution, working class ...
Time:
70s, year 1970
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot:
world war two, family relations, great depression, canadian, religion, catholic, conscription, french canadian
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, ...
Plot:
british empire, death sentence, prison, execution
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of Vincent Lacroix, a businessman convicted of defrauding thousands of investors and embezzling over $130 million in mid-2000s Quebec, Canada. Inspector and auditor Éric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of the Norbourg firm. ...
Plot:
embezzlement, fraud
Place:
quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 208 min.
Story:
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his ...
Plot:
politics, constitution, kidnapping, ethnic conflict, hostage, terrorism, prime minister, politician, canadian, independence movement
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, touching
Plot:
strong man, rise to the top, ambition, performer's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, humble, strongman, human
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman's son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the 'Fisherman's House'. They aim to organize ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
fighting the system, rebelliousness, idealism, political activism, hopes, society, rebellion, political unrest, crisis, state affairs, small town, nude ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, future
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the ...
Style:
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Plot:
terrorism, life is a bitch, political conspiracy, head of state, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, leadership, politics, americana, hijacking, tragic event ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Place:
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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.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
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canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
gang, betrayal, retiring, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, friends, bank robbery, career criminal, one last job, released from prison, best friends ...
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Duration: 87 min.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that country despite the involved political intrigues of ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
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René Lévesque becomes a popular and charismatic Canadian politician.
Plot:
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