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In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
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In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
Original name: In nome del Papa re
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power. That night, three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the youth's release, hides him, and then engages in doomed battles of wit with the court and with the Black Pope to free the other two. Can this priest be a father, blunt power, and live out his faith?
Plot: pope, love, religion, youth, roman, inquisition, graffiti, court, priest, vatican, singer, judge, singing, catholic church, freedom, death sentence, nobility, revolutionary, revolution, rebel, catholic, historical event, countess, father son relationship, catholic priest ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: rome italy, italy
Keyword: mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and epic films with plots about catholic, italian history, priest, religion, society, revolution and christian mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like In the Name of the Pope King: 1900 (1976), The Conspirators (1969), The King of Naples (1989), Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980), Garibaldi (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Style: historical drama
Plot: catholic, war for independence, revolutionary, pope, rebel, italian history
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: rome italy, italy
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The Conspirators (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his ...
Plot: liberal, shoemaker, revolution, italian history, religion, resistance, world war two, war for independence, fight, republican, hanging, bishop ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The King of Naples (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his queen Maria Sofia. This serio-comic drama follows the ...
Plot: war for independence, older man younger woman relationship, italian history, catholic, theatrical troupe, king, cross dressing, seduction, servant, surrender, male female relationship, weirdo ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: italy, naples italy, rome italy
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Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the ...
Plot: soldier, war for independence, italian history, vatican, italian army, italian soldier
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Garibaldi (1961)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern ...
Style: historical drama, vintage
Plot: invasion, nationalist, war for independence, revolution, italian history, civil war, volunteer, republican
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style: epic, visual, political, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Plot: decadence, revolution, politics, civil war, melancholy, catholic, literary, ambition, death, execution, italian history, battles ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1963, 1800s ...
Place: sicily, italy, corsica, palermo italy, naples italy ...
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The Viceroys (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, dishonesty, society, revolution, family life, palace intrigue, power struggle, revisionist history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
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The Assisi Underground (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
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Plot: catholic, world war two, christian, nazi, pope, holocaust, catholic priest, priest, friendship, bishop, catholic church, monk ...
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Plot: pope, vatican, clergy, religion, medieval, monk, monastery, catholic priest, healing power, cross dressing, ambition, hidden identity ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
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Time: 60s
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual ...
Plot: peasant, farm, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, hide and seek, parent child relationship, family problems ...
Time: 1900s, year 1978, 19th century, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, utopia, chaos, basement, politics, revolution, prison, rebellion, hopes, state affairs, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
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Style: uplifting, political, biblical, christian film, sincere ...
Audience: teens
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Plot: marxist, hanging, cannon, sword fight, freemason, murder, newspaper, election, church, raid, teacher, freedom fighter ...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
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Style: scenic, philosophical, touching, profound, epic ...
Plot: saint, medieval, christian, clergy, religion, christianity, catholic, biopic, bible, church, beautiful scenery, god ...
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Plot: renaissance, pope, painter, biopic, artist, time machine, judge, sculpture, italian history, soldier, female nudity, homosexuality ...
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
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Style: serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: terrorism, hostage, revolution, politics, murder, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, danger, state affairs, head of state, society ...
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Country: Italy, West Germany
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Style: emotional, serious, bleak, factual, cult classic ...
Plot: saint, religion, monk, historical event, medieval, male nudity, clergy, hopes, religions or cults, society, starting over, christian ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1989, 13th century, 12th century
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Flame in the Wind (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in the splendor and terror of the Spanish Inquisition, Flame in the Wind tells the story of Carlos, an earnest young nobleman who is faced with a choice: the church system offers safety, protection, and respectability; the Scriptures offer ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: spanish inquisition, faith, christian, catholic, court martial, jail cell, torture, priest, soldier, hiding place, prisoner, monastery ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain
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New World (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: At the end of the 16th century, as the Spanish conquerors strive to subdue the New World, they confront another problem of equal magnitude: the evangelization of the natives, who are people of deep religious beliefs and refuse to understand nor ...
Plot: spanish conquest, crusader, religion, time machine, jungle, catholic, inquisition, conquering, spanish inquisition, catholic church, controversy, painting ...
Time: 16th century
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: spanish civil war, youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, village, wartime life, human nature, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: new york, spain, europe, usa, madrid ...
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Walking, Walking (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
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Style: biblical, allegory, crying, fairy tale
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
Plot: false confession, trial, witch, religion, inquisition, confession, torture, devil, female nudity, woman, rope
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22%
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Land Legs (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring ...
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