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Devil's Mistress (2016)
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Original name: Lída Baarová
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
Style:
captivating, touching, suspense, disturbing, meta, crying, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
nazism, world war two, nazi, love triangle, ambition, mistress, dictator, intrigue, actress, husband wife relationship, selfishness, filmmaking, dictatorship, chess, infection, death of protagonist, czech german relations, cinema, political intrigue, wartime life, biopic, sex, prison, dancing, train ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, year 1946, year 1937, year 1945, 2000s, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, austria, switzerland, czech republic, prague, czechoslovakia ...
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Most similar movies to Devil's Mistress
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, serious and realistic films with plots about biopic, husband wife relationship, world war two, politics, dog, train and photograph mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Devil's Mistress: Red Joan (2018), Milada (2017), Zahradnictv?: Rodinn? p??tel (2017), Downfall (2004), Reaching for the Moon (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, female secret agent, espionage, war crime, love ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1946, year 1941, year 2019, 1940s ...
Place:
soviet union, canada, russia, hiroshima japan, montreal ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
european history, prisoner, lawyer, world war two, communism, death sentence, czech history, trial, husband wife relationship, jail, politics, strong female character ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Melodrama set in Czech Republic during the Germain occupation.
Style:
romantic, suspenseful, melancholic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, love triangle, secret, horse riding, hallucination, blood, death, doctor, friendship between men, conspiracy, baby, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1944, year 1945 ...
Place:
europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, czech republic
Similarity:
26%
398K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian couple, poetry, writer's life, lesbian love, love and romance, love, lgbt, poet, alcoholism, american abroad, writers ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, nebraska, new york ...
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
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23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
interracial marriage, politics, forbidden love, racism, royal family, interracial romance, marriage, interracial, equality, segregation, law student, marriage proposal ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 2016, year 1947, 50s
Place:
africa, england, south africa, indiana, london ...
Similarity:
23%
27K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style:
epic, political, breathtaking, philosophical, sentimental ...
Plot:
politics, communism, journalism, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, writers, love story, reporter, infidelity, cold war, train ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 1917, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, sentimental, compassionate, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, conspiracy, german occupation, fight, agent, arrest, police station, mass murder, secret mission, trap, war crime, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It is 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man with no nation. In America he tries to forget the personal and political betrayal he and his ...
Style:
captivating, serious, disturbing, stylized
Plot:
diplomat, diplomacy, czech history, psychiatrist, nazi germany, european history, life is a bitch, betrayal, fascism, cold war, world war two, post war ...
Time:
pre world war two, year 1939, year 1938, 1930s, year 1937
Place:
israel, prague, central europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Style:
non-linear, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, healer, gay interest, politics, gay lead character, diagnosis, lgbt, homoeroticism, traumatized man, arrested ...
Time:
year 1935, year 1942, 20th century, 60s, 1930s ...
Place:
central europe, europe, prague
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style:
costume drama, powerful
Plot:
french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, resistance, world war, nazi occupied france, shoah, love, secret, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, geneva switzerland, france ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, period piece, intellectual ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, sex scene, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian attraction, writers, lesbian, open marriage, woman, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1890s, year 1900, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, louisiana, marseille
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Style:
freeze frame, crying, period drama
Plot:
world war one, renaissance, biopic, signing a contract, work abroad, national identity, czech german relations, superstition, moral dilemma, forest, drunken man, shooting ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, year 1916, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, prague, america, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
african american, performer, dancer, racism, vaudeville, orchestra, showbiz, cabaret, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 70s ...
Place:
france, america, paris france, missouri, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
551
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It's the summer of '68 and the young Czech playwright Vaclav Havel is enjoying the heady atmosphere of new- found freedom as the iron grip of Soviet repression gradually loosens throughout Central Europe. In Havel's Prague, politics ...
Style:
non-linear, captivating, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot:
playwright, czech history, conscience, political activist, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship, rivals, jail, fight, friendship between men, communist, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1968, year 1976, year 1989, 60s ...
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style:
emotional, factual, visually stunning, slasher, social ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, conspiracy, gestapo, murderer, assassination, betrayal, nazi occupation, friendship between men, ss, suspicion, repression ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 2016, 90s, y2k ...
Place:
germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Style:
period piece, stylized, costume drama, sexy, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
royal family, love affair, adultery, love triangle, political intrigue, infidelity, queen, royalty, royal court, coup d'etat, aristocracy, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 2012, victorian era, georgian era ...
Place:
denmark, europe, england, copenhagen, scandinavia ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, disturbing, factual, touching ...
Plot:
british raj, independence, palace, servant, earl, ethnic conflict, british empire, democracy, economics, promise, governor, celebration ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1933, year 1947
Place:
india, delhi, pakistan, london, new delhi ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, political, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Plot:
childhood, chinese history, world war two, biopic, revolution, emperor, politics, prison, eunuch, drug addiction, communism, symbolism ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1900s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
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Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, lifestyle change, czech history, occupation, betrayal, social climbing, father son relationship, politician, family relations, czech german relations, opportunist ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, melancholic, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, royal family, young soldier, crown prince, hitler, wehrmacht, democracy, evacuation, german occupation, king, nazi germany, world war ...
Time:
year 1940, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, farm, childhood, holocaust, anti semitism, culture clash, immigrant, wartime life, hopes, food shortage, hockey ...
Time:
1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Style:
crying, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, prisoner, biopic, cooking, sadistic woman, evil mother, czech german relations, dead child, wound, factory worker, masseuse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, 1930s
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
biopic, showbiz, obsession, secrets, manipulation, investigation, hollywood, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, talented, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, 1940s, year 1944, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
18%
802
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.
Style:
captivating, psychological, crying, non-linear, period drama
Plot:
running, runner, endurance, olympics, biopic, role model, based on real people, athlete, problem, athlete's life, track and field, escape ...
Time:
60s, 1860s, year 1952, 1950s, 1940s ...
Place:
helsinki finland, prague, london, europe, central europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, melancholic, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
love and romance, obsession, royal family, tudors, male nudity, medieval, politics, intrigue, infidelity, tragic hero, royalty, crazy ...
Time:
16th century, 15th century, ancient times, middle ages, 18th century ...
Place:
spain, portugal, austria, europe, flanders ...
Similarity:
18%
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