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The Death of Socrates (2010)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 languages. One character - Socrates, changes from one scene to another from man to woman, young to old, human to animal, but delivering a monologue, broken into 23 chapters. Truth is not found in one person, in one place.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, experimental, contemplative, art house, bleak, avant garde, allegory, existential, educational ...
Plot:
monologue, death, legacy, martyrdom, philosopher, memory, trial, experimental narrative, visionary, minimalism, biopic, justice, philosophy, freedom of speech, free speech
Place:
ancient greece, greece, athens greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, experimental, philosophical and existential films with plots about memory, biopic, minimalism, symbolism, intimate, character study and ritual mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Death of Socrates: Socrates (1970), Death of a Tea Master (1989), FEEL (2025), 24 Frames (2017), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Athens falls under the government of the Thirty Tyrants, the lives of citizens are no longer safe. The philosopher Socrates, meanwhile, continues his so-called philosophical "preaching", gathering more and more young disciples. The ...
Style:
artsy, philosophical
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, ancient, ancient world, atheist, greek mythology, antiquity, quantum physics, ancient history, lawyer, italian neorealism, peplum ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, greece
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
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Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Style:
art house, meditative, jidai geki, period drama, f word
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ritual, philosophy, samurai, flashback, biopic, spirituality, memory, minimalism, legacy, political intrigue, samurai era, visionary ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
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This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
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art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
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empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 114 min.
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A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
Style:
experimental, anthology, slow cinema, poetic, philosophical ...
Plot:
painting, minimalism, reflection, photography, meditation, filmmaker, director, photographer, meaning of life, film industry, memory, life & death ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
middle east, iran
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29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
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philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
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literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
ancient greece
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. ...
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anthology, captivating, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, life, life & death, fate, memory, symbolism, mortality, experimental narrative, college, forest, minimalism, ritual ...
Time:
21st century
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26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
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'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
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mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
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25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his ...
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, thought provoking, allegory, controversial ...
Plot:
poet, biopic, symbolism, marxism, screenwriter, portrait, italian politics, religion, life & death, scandal, violent death, blasphemy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, anthology, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, minimalism, adaptation, experimental narrative, paranoia, social commentary, absurdism, urban, ideology, literary, improv, intimate ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
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Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.
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stylized, sincere, realistic, meditative, art house ...
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wartime life, parents and children, state affairs, family relations, family life, family history, biopic, memory, identity crisis, portrait, symbolism, voice over narration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
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In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto.
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anthology, avant garde, experimental, art film, poetic ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 102 min.
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The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ...
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bleak, melancholic, tense, intellectual, grim ...
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repression, biopic, political persecution, tragedy, courtroom, historical figure, idealism, ideology, communism, totalitarianism, trial, revolutionary ...
Time:
20th century, year 1936
Place:
soviet union, eastern europe, moscow russia
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
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avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
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The film on the life of guru Osho Rajneesh and his spiritual journey to enlightenment.
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spiritual, inspirational, reflective, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: San Marino
Duration: 46 min.
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 130 min.
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bleak, inspirational, melancholic, reflective, tense ...
Plot:
biopic, martyrdom, nationalism, patriotism, execution, legacy, sacrifice, revolution, mother son relationship, family drama, identity, trial ...
Time:
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Place:
bulgaria, ottoman empire
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Spain
Duration: 76 min.
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reflective, art house, avant garde, experimental, period drama
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
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Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
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existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min.
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This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the ...
Style:
visual, surreal, avant garde
Plot:
writers, poet, divorce, flashback, journalist, death, past, symbolism, memory, male protagonist, dictator, nazi ...
Place:
germany
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20%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Russia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Created under a “manifesto” whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, this three-part film might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its directors – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and ...
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experimental, contemplative, offbeat, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
motivational speaker, lifestyle, society, multiple storylines, experimental narrative, visionary, enlightenment, metaphysics, character study, alternate reality, nihilism, haunting ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
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Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
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experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
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contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
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Time:
turn of the century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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A student working on a thesis explores the life of Confucius and the impact of his teachings on modern society.
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thought provoking, historical drama, philosophical, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, historical figure, wise man, wisdom, student, journalist, disciple, life philosophy, historical character, biopic, chinese history ...
Time:
6th century
Place:
ancient china, china
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Four mythical stories in a contemporary way.
Style:
anthology, surreal, allegory, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
mythology, folklore, legend, symbolism, ritual, transformation, magic realism, identity, urban, woman, cult
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
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An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
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atmospheric, contemplative, heavy, meditative, art house ...
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memory, isolation, loneliness, reflection, symbolism, character study, minimalism, women's issues, absurdism, landscape
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A grandchild sets out to discover how the death of his grandfather in the Spanish Civil War could split up the entire family for three generations.
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captivating, reflective, bleak, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, grandfather, family secret, family drama, uncover truth, three generations, heroes, wartime, military life, social issues, life, lifestyle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
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Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
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contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
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19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
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surreal, avant garde, poetic, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
poet, surrealism, religion, poetry, trippy, writers, medieval, biopic, magic realism, art, metaphor, death ...
Time:
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Place:
soviet union, russia, caucasus, ussr, georgia ...
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19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of the greatest Greek statesman. In the early 19th century, Greece has just gained its independence from the Ottomans and Ioannis Kapodistrias is called upon to assume the role of its first governor. He steadfastly defends the freedom of ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, inspirational, period piece, heroic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
patriotism, sacrifice, biopic, nationalism, reform, tragedy, power struggle, corruption, diplomacy, grave, assassination, politics
Time:
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Place:
greece
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