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Just Great (1972)
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Just Great (1972)
Original name: Tout va bien
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style: political, surreal, sincere, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
Plot: love, communism, anarchy, reporter, chaos, anarchism, strike, female journalist, dialectical materialism, politics, revolution, factory, movie business, class society, rebellion, journalism, fighting the system, society, media, working class, rebelliousness, political unrest, labor union, workplace, state affairs ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968, 1960s
Place: france, paris france, vietnam, asia, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, political and thought provoking films with plots about society, politics, rebellion, state affairs, rebelliousness, revolution and working class mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like Just Great: Land and Freedom (1995), Lulu the Tool (1971), Joy of Learning (1969), La chinoise (1967), Something in the Air (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Joy of Learning (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late ...
Style: eros, avant garde, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: revolution, politics, hipster, repression, black panthers, theory, television studio, education, man in underwear, marxism, philosophy, capitalism ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, america, vietnam, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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La chinoise (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style: political, philosophical, art house, artsy, cult classic ...
Plot: revolution, communism, politics, anarchist, protest, marxist, legal, anarchy, communist, hippie, modernism, isolation ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, britain, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Man of Marble (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Style: emotional, meditative, compassionate, talky, disturbing ...
Plot: politics, visceral, communism, working class, friendship, honest, eviction, terrorist, journalism, heroes, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 1950s, year 1976, 20th century ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
Style: serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: terrorism, hostage, revolution, politics, murder, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, danger, state affairs, head of state, society ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2003, year 1978
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ⇓
28%
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Blame It on Fidel! (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: politics, coming of age, radical, family life, political unrest, family problems, immigrant, hopes, journalism, state affairs, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 127 min.
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Style: thought provoking, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: police brutality, bullying, rebelliousness, fighting the system, globalization, political unrest, violence spree, anarchist, violence, demonstration, political protest, humiliation ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
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Blood from a Stone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot: bankruptcy, save the day, workplace, rivalry, factory, labor union, working class, society, boss and employee, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
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The Hidden Half (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, islamic ...
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Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Communists (2014)
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Duration: 113 min.
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Duration: 141 min.
Story: An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills ...
Style: political, surreal, captivating, experimental, visual ...
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The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
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Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: thought provoking, captivating, bleak, emotional, sincere ...
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Hands Over the City (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Plot: politics, election, corruption, investigation, political corruption, bribery, dishonesty, state affairs, fighting the system, manipulation, lie, city council ...
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
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Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, tense ...
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Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
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Our Music (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style: philosophical, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: politics, life philosophy, existentialism, self discovery, greed, society, anti war, memory, journalist, poetry, religion, minimalism ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: absurd, surreal, political, cynical, talky ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, sex, satire, vietnam war, society, obsession, female nudity, social commentary, coffee, anarchist, european ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Organizer (1963)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
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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 ⇓
21%
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style: intellectual, philosophical, talky, clever, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: counterculture, women, relationships, politics, revolution, hippie, european, sexuality, social commentary, violence, sex, hipster ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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