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St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
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St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
Original name: San Michele aveva un gallo
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
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, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: anarchist, utopia, basement, chaos, anarchism, prison, politics, revolution, human spirit, life is a bitch, prison life, rebellion, self discovery, society, introspection, moral dilemma, political unrest, solitary, haunted by the past, hopes, state affairs, chaos and mayhem, loneliness, water, suicide ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: italy, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and captivating films with plots about society, state affairs, political unrest, politics, rebellion, life is a bitch and revolution mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like St. Michael Had a Rooster: The Viceroys (2007), The Amazing Grace (2006), The Blue Kite (1993), Caesar Must Die (2012), The 13 Roses (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Place: sicily, italy, rome italy, europe
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The Amazing Grace (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: John Newton is captain of a slave ship moored off the coast of Nigeria. He stands at a crossroads in his life, his morality and religion at odds with the brutality of his chosen profession. Stepping ashore, he starts on a journey of redemption that ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, epic
Plot: righting the wronged, fighting the system, introspection, hopes, interracial relations, life is a bitch, escapades, state affairs, moral dilemma, injustice, self discovery, politics ...
Time: 18th century
Place: nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Blue Kite (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Style: depressing, political, realistic, controversial, serious ...
Plot: communism, children, politics, revolution, cold war, activist, asian history, prisoner of war camp, family relations, life is a bitch, rebellion, innocence lost ...
Time: 1950s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire), the scripted documentary shows inmates at a prison in Rome rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Style: realistic, talky, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: prison, shakespeare, hopes, actor's life, human spirit, audition, criminal heroes, introspection, confined, prison life, rehearsal, convict ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The 13 Roses (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, false accusation, social decay, life is a bitch, betrayal, idealism, society, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Organizer (1963)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to ...
Style: political, contemplative, thought provoking, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: factory, strike, politics, labor union, working class, resistance, union, european, conflict, employment, labor, big business ...
Time: turn of the century, 19th century, year 1963, 1800s, 1900s ...
Place: italy, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, esoteric ...
Plot: rebellion, christianity, rebel, political unrest, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, religions or cults, state affairs, tragic event, indigenous people, war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Miral (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, politics, refugee, arab, injustice, rebellion, human spirit, youth, society, fall in love, love and romance, rebelliousness ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, persia, palestinian authority ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Communists (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) ...
Style: experimental, realistic, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: communism, working class, state affairs, politics, communist, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, human nature
Place: tuscany, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Freedomfighters (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style: political, informative, social, sad, serious ...
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, civil war, rebellion, revolution, spanish history, radical, international relations, labor, sex ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: barcelona, iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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We Believed (2010)
Genre: History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 205 min.
Story: The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
Style: tense, serious, historical drama, factual, psychological ...
Plot: italian history, politics, rebellion, political unrest, rebelliousness, society, battles, historical event, execution, occupation, repression, frustration ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1800s, 1840s
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, sicily, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Endgame (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, sincere, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bomb, politics, rebellion, danger, hopes, revolution, siege, unlikely partners, folk hero, leadership, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: south africa, africa, england, europe, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Press (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.
Style: captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious, political thriller
Plot: kurd, journalism, media, politics, political unrest, workplace, realism, society, rivalry, oppression, investigative journalism, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Groenten uit Balen (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot: fighting the system, working class, labor union, parents and children, family life, human spirit, factory worker, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, society, factory ...
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Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Supper (1992)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: political, contemplative, talky, biting, cynical ...
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Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Time That Remains (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.[Synopsis from the director, courtesy of Cannes Film Festival] : "The Time That Remains" is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a ...
Style: humorous, psychological, thought provoking, realistic, touching ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005)
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
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Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, china, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Country: China
Duration: 140 min.
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Place: china, asia
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53%
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18 Days (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, anthology ...
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53%
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You Laugh (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot: kidnapping, aging, unfulfillment, introspection, love and romance, artists and showbiz, tragic hero, disability, family relations, retiring, abduction, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Holy Land of Tyrol (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. ...
Style: epic, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: revolution, rebellion, tragic love, society, political unrest, injustice, soldier, couple relations, wartime life, rivalry, german history, napoleonic wars ...
Time: 19th century
Place: germany, europe
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49%
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; ...
Style: talky, experimental, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: utopia, anarchist, politics, rebellion, protest, civil unrest, bohemian, professor, friends, couples, idealism, self discovery ...
Time: future, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, anthology, bleak ...
Plot: politics, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, political unrest, state affairs, anti war, society, immigration, omnibus, exodus, world war one ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: bosnia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Big Dream (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, politics, rebelliousness, state affairs, against the rules, follow your dream, love and romance, secret movement, double life, mole, student life, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Leopard (1963)
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.1
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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, political ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, racial violence, leadership, prison life, interracial relations, freedom fighter, friendship, rebellion, human spirit, fighting the system, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Man of Iron (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as ...
Style: political, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: strike, communism, protest, union, communist, revolution, labor, identity, fictional history, chaos, renaissance, kung fu ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 70s, 60s
Place: poland, ussr, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Salvador (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, dictatorship, death penalty, legal, against humanity, legal investigation, politics, rebellion, missing person, demonstration, fighting the system, journalism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washington is remembered as America's founding father, Arnold as America's most notorious traitor. ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: american revolution, revolution, independence, treason, political unrest, political conspiracy, assassination, military, state affairs, rebellion, tragic hero, war ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: usa, america, quebec, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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