Movies like Vasiliki
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Vasiliki (1997)
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Original name: Βασιλική
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
It is based on a true story, where a young soldier and the wife of a revolutionary guy falls in love while in the background we witness political turmoils of Greece at that time.
Plot:
greek civil war, love, rape, violence, civil war, death, murder, soldier, gendarme, communist, debt, decapitation, rural setting, persecution, chase, countryside, pursuit, explosion, head cut off
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, captivating and disturbing films with plots about murder, death, rape, violence, world war two, soldier and love mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Vasiliki: Caravan Serai (1986), The Law and the Fist (1964), Happy Day (1976), In the Shadow of the Sun (1974), Boy on the Bridge (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
Place:
san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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