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The Law and the Fist (1964)
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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.
Style:
serious, bleak, tension, suspense, black and white
Plot:
post war, ethics, social justice, lone hero, community, honor, humanism, power struggle, social realism, solidarity, loot, survival, betrayal, abandoned city, vigilante, resilience, investigation, rebellion, train, violence, death, murder, shooting, ghost town, drinking ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, realistic, period piece and melancholic films with plots about survival, betrayal, moral ambiguity, social realism, violence, poverty and coming of age mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Law and the Fist: The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972), Workers, Peasants (2001), Lena: My 100 Children (1987), Rokonok (2006), The Constant Factor (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Directed by Henryk Kluba
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, bleak, dramatic ...
Plot:
rebellion, political conflict, resistance, post war, oppression, power struggle, working class, authoritarianism, class struggle, sawmill, mountain village, confrontation ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships ...
Style:
reflective, period piece, bleak, melancholic, light
Plot:
post war, worker, working class, solidarity, community, survival, hopes, social change, village life, resilience, trauma, poverty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.
Style:
heartbreaking, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
post war, holocaust, survivor, orphan, refugee camp, jewish history, anti semitism, survival, community, resilience, solidarity, violence ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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706
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, tension, intense, grim ...
Plot:
corruption, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, idealism, power struggle, frustration, compromise, ethics, small town, bureaucracy, character study, rise and fall ...
Time:
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75%
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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:
existential, melancholic, bleak, intellectual, tragic
Plot:
corruption, grief, character study, moral dilemma, family drama, existential crisis, bureaucracy, frustration, social realism, betrayal, class struggle, anti hero ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe, poland, himalaya
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
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214
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 135 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.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, period piece, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
greek civil war, soldier, forbidden romance, post war, danger, tragic love, betrayal, resistance movement, repression, police sergeant, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
50%
765
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
corruption, class conflict, character study, social realism, working class, redemption, betrayal, alienation, solidarity, loneliness, realism, rehabilitation ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1980, year 1976, year 1978, year 1977 ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
49%
14
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Forced to navigate dangerous environments to keep her mother alive, Glo gets entangled with a mob boss and finds her life spiraling out of control.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
desperation, survival, mother daughter relationship, mob boss, female protagonist, organized crime, violence, urban, underworld, corruption, crime family, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
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159
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style:
black and white, crime drama, bleak, neo noir, noir ...
Plot:
boxing, suburbs, survival, desperation, urban decay, poverty, corruption, violence, heist, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, working class ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
partisan, iron curtain, cold war, sacrifice, resistance movement, hopes, political oppression, post war, society, showdown, fight for supremacy, fighting the system ...
Time:
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Place:
lithuania
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Country: Russia, Azerbaijan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment ...
Style:
tension, bleak, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
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Place:
azerbaijan, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, tension, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Poland
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Story:
Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, intense, educational ...
Plot:
working class, violence, civil unrest, character study, cold war era, social realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, renaissance, political party, government, clerk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
38%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tension, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, tense
Plot:
abandonment, orphan, post war, trauma, orphanage, identity, injustice, loss of innocence, loss, childhood, desperation, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A hardworking lorry driver who works at an old paper mart learns about the presence of a bomb and does everything he can to stop it from exploding.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
bomb, problem, bomb threat, driver, truck driver, threat, moral dilemma, social realism, working class, humanism, empathy, anti war ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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186
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, independent film, tension, suspense, educational
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
colombia
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Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, europe
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445
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Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, dramatic, suspense, tense
Plot:
class conflict, hotel, economic inequality, hierarchy, social realism, injustice, poverty, female protagonist, classism, accusation, city life, moral dilemma ...
Place:
tehran, iran
Similarity:
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245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak
Plot:
loneliness, poverty, alienation, isolation, social realism, female protagonist, single mother, theft, tragic romance, working class, melancholy, desperation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, west berlin west germany, poland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London ...
Style:
independent film, crime drama, crime thriller, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
32%
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