Movies like Shivers 1981
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Shivers (1981)
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Original name: Dreszcze
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It's winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.
Style:
political
Plot:
coming of age, boy, renaissance, little boy, exploitation, love letter, sex, teenager, village, school, fight, children, police officer, train, teacher, police, student, sex scene, politics, death, suicide, teenage girl, neighbor, sadist, communism ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and bleak films with plots about school, coming of age, boy, father son relationship, teacher, family relations and communism mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Shivers: Nightmares (1979), The Road Home (1999), Sunday Pranks (1983), Man of Iron (1981), The Mother of Kings (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is ...
Style:
intellectual, political
Plot:
coming of age, boy, polish history, teacher, school, boarding house, tyranny, rebel, religion, male nudity, father son relationship, police ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
true love, love, teacher, coming of age, funeral, loneliness, school, death, love story, grief, burial, asian history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Style:
grim, bleak, period piece
Plot:
bullying, stalinism, communism, childhood, innocence lost, cruelty, totalitarianism, post war, fear, irony, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
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Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as ...
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political, realistic, serious, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot:
strike, renaissance, protest, communism, labor, revolution, communist, union, identity, fictional history, kung fu, non violence ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe, ussr, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family ...
Style:
intellectual, pre war
Plot:
renaissance, world war two, communism, tram, single mother, neighbor, politics, sacrifice, false accusation, torture, death of father, jail ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ...
Style:
anthropological, harsh
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, racism, teenage girl, corporal punishment, indigenous people, teacher, runaway, identity, nordic, humiliation, school, book ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
missouri, california, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, grim, tense, art house, reflective
Plot:
hotel, coming of age, boy, restaurant, class struggle, conformity, promotion, morality, realism, rise and fall, ambition, corruption ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The ...
Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style:
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Plot:
childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, dictatorship, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
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Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher ...
Plot:
town, persecution, arrest, scandal, blackmail, lesson, trial, school teacher, suffering, religion, oppression, protest ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local ...
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
poland, ussr, warsaw poland, denmark
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321
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, historical drama, bleak, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
bomb, anarchism, revolution, terrorism, political violence, political oppression, underground movement, paranoia, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, conspiracy, sacrifice ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay interest, teenage boy, sex scene, small town, lgbtq, gay, friendship between boys, family problems, sexual awakening, underage sex, first kiss ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
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Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
family saga
Plot:
renaissance, nazism, monarchy, dynasty, female nudity, nazi, aristocracy, brotherhood, mine, palace, incest, man in a wheelchair ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
social
Plot:
lgbt child, teacher student relationship, coming of age, boyhood, mother son conflict, boy, gay, lgbt, gay crush, little boy, blond boy, museum ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Country: Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
male nudity, nude young male, bare chested male, high school student, teenage boy, hot guys, male pubic hair, father son relationship, school, teenager, violence, naked man ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
302
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, independent film, hispanic, f word
Plot:
boy, coming of age, father son relationship, boyhood, nude boy, children, dream, school, english class, soccer, black cat, language learning ...
Place:
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19%
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Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, political ...
Plot:
cold war, solidarity, teenager, friendship, learning the truth, border crossing, high school, communism, betrayal, father son relationship, twists and turns, nazi ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s, year 1953
Place:
east germany, west berlin west germany, germany, hungary, german democratic republic ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, tense, bleak, costume drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe
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17K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In early 1970s, Adem is a boy living in an Aegean village with his family. He just finished the primary school and he wants to work while he's on summer holiday. He gets permission from his family to work for a soda pop seller named Ciber ...
Style:
psychological, humorous, captivating, feel good
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
crying
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
boy, bullying, children, friendship between boys, friendship, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, violence, school, retribution ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, social problems, self discovery, boy, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, meaning of life, travel, teenage life, journey, education ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, satirical, absurd, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, cinema, social commentary, political satire, magic realism, bureaucracy, political repression, provincial, civil unrest, midlife crisis, bittersweet ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Style:
political, sad, captivating, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
latin america, argentina, bolivia, spain, south america ...
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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