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1915 (2015)
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
Style:
rough, sad, suspenseful, disturbing, tension, historical drama, psychological thriller, suspense, political thriller, independent film
Plot:
armenian genocide, theater, genocide, turkish history, soldier, life is a bitch, memory, memories, society, culture clash, violence, brutality, grief, ghost, fear, loss, diaspora, confrontation, haunting, taboo subject, supernatural, reflection, stage play, great war, revenge ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire, los angeles, turkey
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Most similar movies to 1915
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, psychological, captivating and melancholic films with plots about armenian genocide, life is a bitch, loss, memory, genocide, family relations and grief mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like 1915: Armenia, My Love... (2016), Assignment Berlin (1982), Mother (1991), The Lark Farm (2007), Nahapet (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The destiny of a happy Armenian family, whose life will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, turkish history, mass murder, life is a bitch, social problems, loss, trauma, memory, inheritance, grief, survivor ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
ottoman empire, armenia, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
no overview
Plot:
armenian genocide, courtroom drama, crime against humanity, jury, justice, mass murder, genocide, assassination, world war one, trial, witness, revenge ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
ottoman empire, turkey, berlin germany, armenia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, ...
Style:
saga, emotional, historical drama, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, biopic, exile, refugee, motherhood, immigration, family drama, survival, mother son relationship, resilience, family relations ...
Place:
armenia, marseille, ottoman empire, france, provence
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, world war one, turkish history, family relations, wartime life, life turned upside down, siblings relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, deportation, great war ...
Time:
year 1915, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire, turkey, middle east
Similarity:
50%
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456
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, emotional, poignant, bleak ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, trauma, resilience, loss, grief, survival, symbolism, hopes, national identity, mourning, character study, rebirth ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
soviet union, armenia, ussr
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Plot:
tsunami, grief, loss, society, small town life, life is a bitch, troubled past, tragic past, healing, mourning, trauma, community ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, turkish history, diaspora, immigration, genocide, survivor, immigrant, love and romance, elderly lovers, elderly, writer's life, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ottoman empire, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
children, deportation, brother sister relationship, search for mother, loss, social issues, family relations, search for father, social misfits, social problems, life is a bitch, travel ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire
Similarity:
43%
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516
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, road movie, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, genocide, physician, road trip, journey, intimate, family reunited, identity crisis, father daughter relationship, self discovery, female protagonist ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers ...
Style:
anthology, multicultural, intercultural, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, memory, identity, city life, mother and daughter, nostalgia, intimate, family drama, slice of life, bittersweet, social realism ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, middle east, ottoman empire, greece
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
41%
608
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
trauma, turkish history, mass murder, assassin, diplomat, genocide, armenian genocide, vengeance, tough heroes, haunted by the past, gangster, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1915, 21st century
Place:
armenia, france, turkey, paris france, ottoman empire
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
relationships, grief, loss, guilt, friendship, life is a bitch, tragic event, changing lives, loss of brother, family relations, healing, small town ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to ...
Style:
sincere, rough, sentimental, disturbing
Plot:
assassination, trauma, trial, execution, hospital, shooting, embassy, dancing, cyclist, ashes, man in a wheelchair, ambassador ...
Time:
year 1915, year 2015, 80s, 70s
Place:
france, armenia, berlin germany, turkey, ottoman empire ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
violence, psychopath, life is a bitch, hospital, society, danger, brutality, life & death, homelessness, homeless, poverty, angry ...
Place:
columbus ohio, ohio, cincinnati ohio, los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
37%
15K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, emotional, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, filmmaking, politics, ethnic, painting, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems ...
Time:
year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1915 ...
Place:
armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, this is a film about a childhood friendship, torn apart by the horrific Hamidian massacres infiltrated by the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1894-1896).
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
courage, friendship, hopes, armenian genocide, religious persecution, battles, empire, life risking, fight, friends, female protagonist, political oppression ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
ottoman empire, constantinople, armenia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 12, Gabriel was sexually abused by Father Vincey, his headmaster. Fifteen years later, he is still traumatized. Constantly racked by this wrong that he has kept secret, Gabriel buys a gun and moves in near the boarding school where the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
revenge, sexual abuse, pedophile priest, rape victim, church, trauma, rape and revenge, problem, sexualized violence, violence, pedophile, rape ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, political, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
violence, handicapped, social issues, assault, military, wartime, physical disability, society, social relations, protector, protection, resistance ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
35%
248
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, shakespeare, tragedy, problem, life is a bitch, madness, theater, betrayal, character study, literary, family conflict, obsession ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An Orthodox Jewish mother and her daughters fall prey to the malevolent forces that preside over a rural community.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, scary
Plot:
supernatural horror, violence, supernatural ability, loss, characters in danger, ghost, supernatural, death, heroine, murder, rescue, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shelia, a single mom and sometime paranormal investigator, is enlisted to investigate a possible “haunting” at a widower’s farmhouse in East Tennessee.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, single mother, haunting, paranormal phenomena, loss of wife, single parent, bereavement, paranormal activity, female protagonist, grief, investigation ...
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tension, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, secrets, responsibility, tragedy, guilt, loss, theater, husband wife relationship, troubled past, relationships, haunted by the past, family problems ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, dying man, memory, haunting, ghost story, family life, near death experience, life & death, family problems, troubled past, mourning, elderly man ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
34%
203
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, father daughter conflict, traumatic childhood, sisterhood, family drama, family history, trauma, family secret, family relations, family conflict, father and daughter ...
Place:
algeria, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man sells drugs to rich kids, but finding love gives him reason to leave the gritty life. However, the gritty life has trouble letting go.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
going straight, juvenile delinquency, materialism, destiny, society, drug abuse, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, drug dealing, fight scenes, urban ghetto, transplant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california, chicago
Similarity:
34%
503
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in the belly of Los Angeles' criminal underworld, Arc is the story of Paris Pritchert, a former police officer turned drug dealer and addict, who embarks on a quest to find a missing child in the hope of redeeming his eroding character. The ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized, dark ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, missing child, private detective, law enforcement, dealer, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, society, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
34%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
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