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The Law and the Fist (1964)
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
Original name: Prawo i pięść
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 against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
Plot: train, violence, death, murder, post war, shooting, ghost town, drinking, world war two, drinking alcohol, gun, death by gunshot
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
Keyword: oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and intellectual films with plots about death, murder, world war two, family relations, violence, train and gun mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like The Law and the Fist: The Constant Factor (1980), Lesson of a Dead Language (1979), Vasiliki (1997), The Sea and Poison (1986), The Axiliad (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Constant Factor (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: renaissance, mountaineer, frame up, job, father, fired from the job, father son relationship, dying, death, corruption, death of father, death of mother ...
Time: year 1980
Place: poland, eastern europe, himalaya
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Lesson of a Dead Language (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Plot: woods, world war one, murder, polish, hotel, concentration camp, holocaust, dying, lieutenant, pursuit, small town, symbolism ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s
Place: poland
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From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style: experimental
Plot: world war two, italian history, resistance, myth, greek mythology, post war, class struggle, mythology
Time: 1940s
Place: ancient greece, italy
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Vasiliki (1997)
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, soldier, love, rural setting, persecution, decapitation, rape, violence, death, murder, debt, gendarme ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Axiliad (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Plot: train, library, love, tree, young woman, colleague, lumberjack, old lady, village, dream, winter, male female relationship ...
Place: poland
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How Far, How Near (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style: surreal
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, apparition, nudity, partisan, suicide, ghost, christmas eve, metaphysics, memory, first love, ex husband ex wife relationship
Place: poland
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A Room with a View on the Sea (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960's, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, train station, murder of a family, harassment, looting, bloodbath, train, prison, flashback, singing, jealousy, husband wife relationship ...
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How to Be Loved (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
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The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Plot: world war two, world war, pilot, money, narcotics, ambition, murder, prospector, post war, smuggler, partnership, mistress ...
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Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
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Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
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Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
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54%
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Transit (2005)
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Style: independent film, hispanic
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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48%
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Country: Poland
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Village in the Jungle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 130 min.
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The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Rokonok (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
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Plot: politics, election, town, corruption, train, voting, family relations, pig, suicide attempt, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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