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The Magnate (1987)
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Original name: Magnat
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, West Germany, East Germany
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Style:
family saga
Plot:
renaissance, nazism, dynasty, monarchy, incest, nazi, cheating wife, female nudity, aristocracy, mine, communism, palace, sexually dissatisfied wife, wheelchair bound, brotherhood, man in a wheelchair, sexually frustrated woman, prince, third reich, sex with stepmother, stepmother stepson relationship, sex with stepson, cuckolded husband, cuckold, polish ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Magnate
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, historical drama and period piece films with plots about renaissance, communism, world war two, politics, female nudity, nazi and death mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Magnate: Fever (1981), The Mother of Kings (1987), Sauna (1992), Brecht (2019), General Nil (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
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
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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:
year 1953, year 1956, year 1933
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
71%
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:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
prussia, poland
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71%
150
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Plot:
debate, theft, discussion, emigration, politics, vodka, foreigner, communism, joke, sauna, solidarity, deception ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
64%
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412
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
playwright, nazi, poet, nazism, world war one, german culture, literature, life, art, biopic, female nudity, poem ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
imprisonment, world war two, army general, trial, moral dilemma, communism, secret service, assassination, arrest, post war, death sentence, prison ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, ussr, siberia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, disturbing, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, wartime, war crime, world war one, family home, butler, ethnic conflict, nationalism, political unrest, life is a bitch, love affair ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1900s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The ...
Style:
family saga, poignant, historical drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, children, wartime, christmas, christmas carol, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, music, tragedy, persecution, sacrifice, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1943, year 1978, year 1941 ...
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, poland, new york
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
Style:
erotic, controversial, disturbing, beautiful
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
rape, erotica, female pubic hair, bare breasts, renaissance, coming of age, morality, crazy love, fetish, sex, love letter, prostitution ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until ...
Style:
period piece, tense, bleak, costume drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
assassination, election, nationalism, political conflict, fanaticism, biopic, democracy, intrigue, moral ambiguity, great war, renaissance, world war two ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
572
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 ...
Style:
political
Plot:
coming of age, love letter, renaissance, little boy, exploitation, boy, indoctrination, polish history, police officer, prisoner of war camp, death, politics ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The dreamy young Hamlet in his castle, undecided whether or not to have sexual approaches with his girls, considering that already has amorous relations with his sister Lucrezia Borgia.
Style:
historical drama, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
incest, lesbian sex, father daughter incest, lesbianism, medieval, renaissance, political intrigue, intrigue, seduction, female protagonist, betrayal, deception ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Style:
epic, family saga, pre war
Plot:
female nudity, boy, skinny dipping, right wing, extremist, russo finnish war, right wing extremist, rural setting, socialist, car, farm, farmer ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid ...
Style:
spiritual, intelligent, esoteric, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, nazi occultism, world war one, world war two, uncover truth, nazi, swastika, german soldier, german history, interwar period, occult, social commentary ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
germany, eastern europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, epic, sincere
Plot:
napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, renaissance, russian history, nobleman, polish history, napoleonic era, imperial russia, destructive relationship, vengeance, heroes, war ...
Time:
1810s, 19th century
Place:
poland, lithuania, eastern europe, russia, europe
Similarity:
42%
618
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style:
independent film, thought provoking, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, friendship between boys, nazi, friendship, boyhood, religions or cults, against humanity, society, confined, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, melancholic, political thriller, pre war ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
political conflict, family drama, sibling rivalry, brothers, moral dilemma, conscience, coming of age, identity crisis, betrayal, nazism, consul, occupation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of ...
Style:
avant garde
Plot:
children, cuckolded husband, erotica, underground, madam, sex, surrealism, extramarital affair, male nudity, infidelity, funeral, suicide ...
Time:
1840s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The violence and high drama of this film is taken directly from recent Polish history. On December 13, 1981 national security forces swoop down on unsuspecting workers of the Wujek mine and arrest a Solidarity leader. Pushed to the limits, the ...
Style:
historical drama, brutal, intense, period piece, suspense ...
Plot:
protest, martial law, violence, strike, police brutality, riot, working class, tragedy, civil unrest, oppression, resistance, authoritarianism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, countryside, piano, magic realism, renaissance, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, comeback, life & death, village life, dealing with death ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, switzerland, europe
Similarity:
37%
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 ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot:
strike, renaissance, protest, communism, labor, revolution, communist, union, identity, fictional history, kung fu, non violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, year 1981
Place:
poland, eastern europe, ussr, europe
Similarity:
37%
243
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Jest rok 1776. Radca wiedeńskiej Kancelarii Nadwornej Henryk Klein (Mariusz Bonaszewski) otrzymuje skargę na hrabiego Jakuba Franka (Olgierd Łukaszewicz), który kilkanaście lat wcześniej został skazany za głoszenie herezji i zbiegł do ...
Style:
serious, captivating, historical drama, realistic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, mysterious man, messiah, warning, religious leader, worship, uncover truth, religious cult, jewish history, political intrigue, conspiracy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s
Place:
vienna, galicia, poland
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
The Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events of 1936, which led to King Edward Vlll giving up the throne for the woman he loved.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, captivating, period piece, non fiction ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
royal family, british history, memories, feud, biopic, monarchy, queen, queen elizabeth ii, british monarchy, royal court, kingdom, relationships ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
33%
29K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot:
world war two, renaissance, post war, patriot, vodka, nkvd, nazism, resistance, communism, anti communist, partisan, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.
Style:
epic
Plot:
pyramid, ancient history, ancient, antiquity, renaissance, ancient world, religion, myth, biopic, bible, time machine, peplum ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1966
Place:
egypt, eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other ...
Style:
tense, tension, melancholic, epic, period drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revolution, patriotism, military, desertion, escape, sacrifice, pursuit, courage, brotherhood, cavalry, nationalism, survival ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
31%
18K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine. For Lygia, a Christian, being a ...
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, epic, tragic
Plot:
fall in love, ancient, rise to the top, tragic love, heroic mission, society, rivalry, tragic romance, medieval, renaissance, peplum, christian ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, year 2001
Place:
italy, eastern europe, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
29%
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