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Lumumba (2000)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
Style:
political, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, sincere, thought provoking, contemplative, biting, sexy ...
Plot:
imperialism, politics, assassination, intrigue, colonialism, capitalism, politician, greed, revolution, betrayal, dehumanization, scapegoat, political corruption, self discovery, defamation, leadership, against the odds, african, injustice, society, rise and fall, head of state, political unrest, dishonesty, genocide ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
africa, congo, belgium, south africa, cuba, israel, latin america ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, political and sincere films with plots about politics, state affairs, biopic, intrigue, society, leadership and political unrest mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Lumumba: Che: Part Two (2008), Sometimes in April (2005), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Che: Part One (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 121 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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