Movies like Nightmares 1979

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Nightmares (1979)
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Nightmares (1979)
Original name: Zmory
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church amd state work together to suppress the human spirit.
Style: intellectual, political
Plot: boy, coming of age, school, teacher, polish history, youth, police, religion, politics, male nudity, rebel, father son relationship, teenage boy, boarding house, tyranny, student, torture, brothel, revolution, sadism, atheism, elementary school, killing an animal, pessimism, metaphor ...
Time: pre world war one
Place: poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about coming of age, boy, school, youth, teenage boy, male nudity and father son relationship mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Nightmares: Shivers (1981), The Genesis Children (1972), Respect (2008), Harmony Lessons (2013), Jaime (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aclà's Decent Into Floristella (1992)
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Duration: 86 min.
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Shivers (1981)
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 ...
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The Genesis Children (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Respect (2008)
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Duration: 73 min.
Story: The boys in class 3F have bullied and made noise with all the teachers at school, and no one dare to teach them anymore. When no teachers appear in the classroom, they decide to teach each other.
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Duration: 120 min.
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Jaime (1999)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching
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Amy George (2011)
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And Then I Go (2017)
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A Room with a View on the Sea (1978)
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