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The Confidant (2012)
273
Original name: eŠteBák
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
Style:
captivating, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, crying
Plot:
secret agent, husband wife relationship, espionage, spy, danger, law enforcement, family problems, sex, prison, school, cheating wife, teacher, female nudity, politics, priest, farm, communism, blackmail, occupation, jail, secret police, confession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, extramarital affair, arrest ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, year 1970, year 1969, year 1967, 1960s
Place:
prague
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Most similar movies to The Confidant
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, disturbing and realistic films with plots about husband wife relationship, female nudity, politics, spy, secret agent, espionage and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Confidant: Hostage (2014), Droneman (2020), Walking Too Fast (2009), Dawn of War (2020), The Play (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
182
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the ...
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, period piece, historical drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
communism, grownups, friendship, coming of age, occupation, loss of innocence, innocence lost, children, social commentary, bittersweet, realism, family tragedy ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, europe, central europe
Similarity:
95%
314
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Droneman is about Chemist and Fly Navigator Pavel and his friend Bussinessman and free time Rapper Plech. Pavel has strong sense of justice and wishes to fix wrongs with the World while Plech dreams about Big money and secure life. Their common ...
Style:
intense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
war crime, terrorist, professor, university, terrorism, journalist, lawyer, breakup, assassination attempt, betrayal, brother sister relationship, fired from the job ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
central europe, tel aviv israel, prague
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
secret police, communist party, villain as protagonist, secret agent, obsession, cold war, paranoia, totalitarianism, male female relationship, agent, social problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, central europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: History, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, espionage, murder, secret agent, traitor, murder investigation, political conspiracy, military, investigation, war, spy mission, political unrest ...
Time:
year 1937, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
estonia, helsinki finland
Similarity:
49%
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146
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Chile, France, South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Czech theater director has an ambition to adapt Eurypides' Phaedra. However, having affair with the actress, he puts his marriage at risk and the play turns to be a fiasco. Desperate, he tries to be the best possible father and husband. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
adulterous husband, infidelity, theatre play, love triangle, small town, adultery, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, relationship problems, family problems, theatre director, fall in love ...
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962
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, touching, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, family relations, social outcast, child protagonist, end of war, death, husband wife relationship, countryside, wartime life, brother brother relationship, gambler ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, year 1943
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young director Honza David (Krystof Hádek) films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva (Vica Kerekes) - the love of his life - he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, period drama
Plot:
spy, secret mission, actress, blackmail, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, double agent, secret agent, special agent, mission, secret service, agent ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, vienna, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse ...
Style:
political, cult classic, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
communism, renaissance, spy, night, election, suspicion, totalitarian regime, modernism, family problems, promotion, couples, totalitarianism ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe, prague, russia, central europe, europe ...
Similarity:
48%
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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:
48%
350
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage, adolescence vs adulthood, infidelity, parents and children, introspection, rebelliousness, guru, family in crisis, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
czech republic
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, powerful, action drama ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, russian spy, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, husband wife sex, cold war era, agent, prospector, spy hero, reconnaissance, politics ...
Time:
2020s, 1950s, 60s, year 1962, year 1964 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, cuba, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night…
Style:
dark comedy, serious, realistic, black comedy, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, assassination, undercover, dark humor, president, political corruption, political conspiracy, state affairs, terrorism, assassination attempt, losing-it hero, intelligence agency ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, shaken and insecure by the defeated revolution of 1956 and prodded by a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security personnel must take an exam to challenge and verify their loyalty. But ...
Style:
captivating, serious, disturbing, suspense, visual ...
Plot:
secret police, political repression, investigation, secret agent, informant, covert operation, agent, courtroom drama, hitman, police station, stalinism, cover-up ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, 20th century
Place:
budapest, hungary, europe
Similarity:
45%
252K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
murder, political conspiracy, politics, police investigation, danger, political corruption, society, dishonesty, state affairs, torture, carabinieri, hairy chested man ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, zurich switzerland, rome italy, central europe ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
priest, occupation, catholic, secret police, political activist, murder, state affairs, clergy, against the odds, politics, legal action, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, holland, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joanna Warczewska, daughter of an eminent writer, is at the peak of her life. Her thriving political career and family happiness are instantly destroyed by a terrorist attack in which her beloved husband is killed. When fate gives her a new chance ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, political, period piece, psychological
Plot:
blackmail, undercover, family problems, private investigation, politician, political unrest, politics, investigation, social problems, family secret, political intrigue, female protagonist ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Style:
political, political thriller, cynical, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot:
politics, communism, interrogation, torture, spy, dictator, anti communist, dictatorship, solitary, cold war, trial, communist ...
Time:
year 1968, 1950s, year 1970, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, france, czech republic, central europe, prague ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
writers, relationship problems, resentment, manuscript, secret police, male female relationship, communism, group sex, topless woman, pub, attempted rape, bare breasts ...
Time:
70s
Place:
central europe, prague, czech republic
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, assassination, iron curtain, holiday, cold war era, on the run, intelligence, invention, secret agent, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany, london, east germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
40%
220
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, captivating, erotic
Plot:
sex with a maid, passionate sex, swinger couple, wife swapping, swingers, sexual attraction, jealousy, husband wife relationship, couple relations, marriage, marital problem, love story ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
An unfaithful newly-wed wife, an estranged father, a priest and an angry son suddenly find themselves in the most unexpected predicaments, each poised to experience their destiny, all on one fateful day.
Style:
satirical, epic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
cheating wife, estranged father, lgbt, priest, multiple storylines, family problems, marital problem, satire, father son estrangement, stranded, disposing of a dead body, lifestyle ...
Place:
the philippines, india
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style:
tense, sexy, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, double agent, cia, politics, corruption, conspiracy, mentor, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1961 ...
Place:
cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Apparently a normal couple, Karen and Max are in fact agents for opposite sides of the "cold" war who have been assigned to marry each other and feed/steal intelligence. When they are both ordered to execute the other they realize that ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cheating wife, sexual content, sexploitation, sex scene, sexual relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, seduction, marital infidelity, special agent, secret agent, eroticism, married couple ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
family relations, family problems, trap, relationship problems, self discovery, family vacation, relationships, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, vacation, sexual abuse, skinny dipping ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Style:
political, realistic, serious, christian film
Plot:
iron curtain, berlin wall, airplane, communism, cold war, german history, prison escape, spy, cold war era, stasi, totalitarian state, travel ...
Time:
70s, year 1982
Place:
east germany, germany, europe, west germany, german democratic republic
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
The Barschel case is one of the most important political scandals in recent German history. Not least because it has remained unsolved. Countless speculations and conspiracy theories have grown up to the present day to the dramatic death of the ...
Style:
feel good, suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
politician, german politics, investigative reporter, mysterious death, investigative journalism, conspiracy, crooked politician, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, politics, husband wife relationship, female reporter ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1987
Place:
west germany, berlin germany, northern germany, geneva switzerland, zurich switzerland ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, compassionate, captivating ...
Plot:
berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, breast feeding, political unrest, cold war, wartime, heroes, danger, daring rescue, prison escape ...
Time:
ancient times, 60s, year 2001
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The ...
Style:
sexy, political, talky, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, politics, gangster, roman empire, mentor, adultery, brainwashing, undercover, conspiracy, secret agent, debt ...
Time:
year 2001, y2k, 90s
Place:
panama, latin america, england
Similarity:
33%
855
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terrorism, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, spy, terrorist plot, counter terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, war on terror, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, egypt
Similarity:
33%
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