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The Raft of the Medusa (1990)
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Original name: Le radeau de la Méduse
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, bleak, grim, tense, atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, art house
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, cannibalism, french colonialism, desperation, political scandal, class conflict, moral ambiguity, court martial, napoleonic wars, biopic, slow burn, sea, catastrophe, ship, painter, napoleon bonaparte, fear, corpse, raft, scandal, panic, lifeboat, scene based on painting
Time:
19th century
Place:
senegal, atlantic ocean, france
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Most similar movies to The Raft of the Medusa
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, historical drama, tense and bleak films with plots about survival, moral ambiguity, slow burn, isolation, biopic, betrayal and resistance mostly in Drama, History and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Raft of the Medusa: Quest for Fire (1981), The Heroes (2022), Burnface (2010), Fox: Hunter (1993), Jhola (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
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realistic, captivating, sexy, prehistoric, atmospheric ...
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caveman, survival, neanderthal, cannibalism, prehistoric man, violence, discovery, fire, cannibal, nudity, tribe, ancient history ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
france, canada, africa, scotland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Serbia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A story set in the Middle Ages about a warrior knight who survived the historic Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Along the way, he meets a wild boy, all alone. And they continue this journey together. This man is a personification of all small heroes, that ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, melancholic, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
medieval, knight, heroism, heroes, lone hero, chivalry, warrior, little boy, survival, bonding, folklore, slow burn ...
Place:
serbia, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
resistance, partisan, guerilla warfare, spanish history, anti fascism, political repression, anarchism, persecution, biopic, militant, isolation, legacy ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1951, 50s
Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, tense, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
dictatorship, totalitarianism, oppression, revolution, fear, surveillance, guilt, protest, atonement, revolt, anxiety, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Sati system was abolished decades ago but Jhola is still relevant to today's Nepal where, unfortunately, cases of sexual harassment, violence against women, trafficking remain all too common.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, surreal, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, orphan, dealing with death, death in the family, oppression, patriarchy, social injustice, women's rights ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
nepal, asia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
shipwreck, titanic, investigation, political intrigue, sinking ship, sea disaster, cruise ship, castaway, puzzle, ship, sunken ship, crime solving ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A true story of passion and political intrigue in early nineteenth century Chile, based on the memoirs of the intrepid travel writer, Maria Graham.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, intercultural ...
Plot:
biopic, female protagonist, political intrigue, diary, social commentary, literary, revolution, intimate, travelogue, independence movement, empowerment, class conflict ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
chile
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
north pole, expedition, rivalry, controversy, biopic, ambition, survival, travel and leisure, perseverance, isolation, naval officer, character study ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
Style:
historical drama, period piece, patriotic, historical romance, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, class struggle, class conflict, oppression, rebellion, bravery, sacrifice, heroism, social injustice, folk hero, nationalism, forbidden love ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
ad feedback A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, grim, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
cannibalism, survival, starvation, desperation, wagon train, tragedy, isolation, winter, man versus nature, snowstorm, american history, cannibal ...
Time:
1840s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of Canadian Mountie Dan Candy's pursuit of a Native American that killed his partner.
Style:
historical drama, realistic, tense, melancholic, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racial injustice, colonialism, manhunt, racial tension, moral ambiguity, cultural conflict, escape, poverty, desperation, hunger, isolation, vigilantism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
survival, hunger, starvation, poverty, fatherhood, desperation, loss, grief, trauma, social injustice, moral ambiguity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After being presented with a treasure map, two men travel to the harsh northern wastelands of Lapland in the hopes of finding gold.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, suspense, grim
Plot:
gold rush, lapland, greed, friendship, survival, nordic, winter, man versus nature, ambition, determination, treasure map, exploration ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era, and ...
Style:
anthology, historical drama, period piece, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
civil war, adaptation, soldier, brutality, village, political repression, survival, class conflict, destruction, moral ambiguity, haunting, realism ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and heads to a small, isolated village near the eastern border. This is where her in-laws live and where her husband, who’s deployed on the front, has ...
Style:
bleak, intense, tense, grim, suspense ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, moral dilemma, paranoia, survival, moral ambiguity, fear, betrayal, claustrophobia, sisterhood, occupation, poisoning ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, art house, grim, independent film ...
Plot:
russo japanese war, resistance, survival, imperial russia, occupation, small town, oppression, poverty, conscription, smuggling, rebellion, revenge ...
Time:
year 1971
Place:
poland, russia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
brothel, women, historical event, political unrest, social problems, survival, tragedy, power struggle, moral ambiguity, resilience, rape, sexual harassment ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, art house, suspenseful ...
Plot:
communism, anti communist, resistance, dictatorship, dictator, post war, guerilla warfare, political persecution, arrest, torture, hardship, desperation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. ...
Style:
historical drama, dark, period piece, intense, tense ...
Plot:
execution, class struggle, political conflict, betrayal, political repression, socialism, tragedy, landowner, forbidden love, nazi, loss, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film by Melnikov.
Style:
historical drama, reflective, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
suicide, justice, legacy, tragic past, investigation, ethical dilemma, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, biopic, political repression, conspiracy, revolution ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and changed the course of European history forever.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
catholicism, religious conflict, power struggle, political intrigue, rebellion, religious persecution, betrayal, revolution, dynasty, battlefield, biopic, european history ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
prague, czech republic, central europe, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
immigration, social problems, society, lifestyle, social issues, struggle for survival, family bonds, survival, determination, journey, adaptation, literary ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s
Place:
america, eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, bleak ...
Plot:
political repression, dictatorship, post war, oppression, post civil war, authoritarianism, resistance, trauma, minimalism, forest, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young girl is taken to an orphanage, which she hopes to flee.
Style:
realistic, emotional, dark, intense, tense ...
Plot:
coming of age, human trafficking, orphanage, poverty, journey, social issues, childhood, escape, trauma, abuse, survival, childhood trauma ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, black sea, romania
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, boat, disaster, sea, storm, moral dilemma, sacrifice, desperation, human nature, character study ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ming Emperor Chongzhen 1642 CE and General Chaunting plan to defend Kaifeng and prevent the Dynasty's fall. The army faces many problems and an epidemic. Healer Youke treats with a new method found relevant even in today's SARS outbreak.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
epidemic, army, ming dynasty, chinese history, army general, medieval, emperor, combat, war, protector, protection, empire ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, grim, intense, tension ...
Plot:
algerian war, police brutality, racism, violence, massacre, protest, immigration, civil rights, social injustice, police corruption, political repression, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria, paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
"This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Style:
atmospheric, noir, period piece, melancholic, tension ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, greed, desolation, loneliness, stolen gold, obsession, betrayal, tragedy, religious conflict, slow burn ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Year is 1812. On the eve of the decisive battle of Borodino, Napoleon's secret agent steals a Russian battle plan. This fact is known to General Kutuzov (Head of Russian forces), thanks to a young nobleman Alexey Tarusov. Tarusov joint to ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, period piece, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
napoleonic wars, monarchy, countess, couple relations, love story, male female relationship, agent, battles, love affair, political unrest, political intrigue, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
greek civil war, greek history, post war, guerilla warfare, trauma, survival, escape, brotherhood, isolation, moral ambiguity, survivalist, exile ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
26%
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