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Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971)
 4.7
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Rain for a Dusty Summer
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Mexico, a mad general is leading his own war against the Church. Priests are rounded up, churches burned down and religion outlawed. The suffering of one pious catholic priest could bring the tide of change however.
Plot: fake moustache, assassination attempt, firing squad, execution, revolution, priest, funeral, prostitute, disguise, murder, bomb
Place: mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about murder, execution, priest, death, blood, revolution and violence mostly in Drama, Western and War genres. Some movies like Rain for a Dusty Summer: Death of a Gunfighter (1969), The Comedians (1967), The Wrath of God (1972), The Tree of Guernica (1975), September Dawn (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
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Death of a Gunfighter
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style: serious, gloomy, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 19th century
Place: texas, usa
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith ...
Style: surreal, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: filmmaking, adventure, obsessive quest, battle zone, rebelliousness, friendship, revolution, campaign, mexican revolution, heroes, state affairs, world war one ...
Place: mexico
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The Comedians (1967)
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The Comedians
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bermuda, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, ...
Style: semi serious, clever, realistic, witty, wife and husband lead actors
Plot: hotel, betrayal, resort, political unrest, politics, dishonesty, state affairs, infidelity, espionage, intrigue, revolution, crimes ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: haiti, caribbean
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The Wrath of God (1972)
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The Wrath of God
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, cynical
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revolution, adventure, danger, adventurer, misfit partners, vengeance, bandit, battles, dishonesty, escapades, heroes, partners ...
Time: 20s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: latin america, central america, mine
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The Tree of Guernica (1975)
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The Tree of Guernica
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Vandale leading the Republican opposition to the fascist arm of Villa Romero, one of the Republican strongholds during the Spanish Civil War. She has previously met with Goya during the bombing of Guernica and the hope of seeing him again...
Style: avant garde
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Place: spain
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September Dawn (2007)
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September Dawn
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: religions or cults, americana, old west, romance, deadly, small town, society, young lovers, leadership, forbidden love, love affair, small town life ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, 1870s, 1850s
Place: usa, utah, arkansas, salt lake city utah
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
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Good Morning, Night
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
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Pancho Villa (1972)
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Pancho Villa
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The Singer Not the Song (1961)
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The Singer Not the Song
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
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The Survivors (1979)
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The Survivors
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from ...
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Amigo
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The Traveling Executioner
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Duration: 95 min.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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Breakfast on Pluto
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NetForce
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Freedomfighters
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Three Brothers
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
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Country: Mexico, Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 118 min.
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Villa Rides (1968)
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Villa Rides
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Les Misérables
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Silent Gunpowder (1990)
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Silent Gunpowder
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Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
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Catch-22 (1970)
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Catch-22
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style: clever, surreal, humorous, biting, psychological ...
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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The Wild Bunch
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
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Romero (1989)
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Romero
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Style: realistic, tense, serious, dramatic, earnest ...
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The Alamo (2004)
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The Alamo
Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, serious, factual, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, death, heroic mission, slavery, civil war, revolution, courage, storytelling, danger, gunfight, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Dead Man's Walk (1996)
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Dead Man's Walk
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
Story: Dead man's Walk is the beginning of the Lonesome Dove Saga. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are just starting out in the Texas Rangers and have no idea of what they are doing for Call it's Duty above all else. For Gus it's the thrill of ...
Style: rough, serious, epic, realistic, suspenseful ...
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
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