Movies like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Norway, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
Style: depressing, political, independent film
Plot: prison, anti communist, communism, communist, iron curtain, winter, food, snow, prisoner, job, weather, veteran, punishment, world war two veteran, human nature, prisoner of war camp, gulag, one day, one day time span
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr

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Most similar movies to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, political and independent film films with plots about prison, communism, prisoner, friendship, confined, prison life and society mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Communists (2014), Prison Break (2017), The First Teacher (1965), Fast-Walking (1982), Workers, Peasants (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Communists (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) ...
Style: experimental, realistic, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: communism, working class, state affairs, politics, communist, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, human nature
Place: tuscany, egypt
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Prison Break (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, japanese police, security guard, snow, japanese woman, fleeing, world war two, prisoner, warden, life sentence, escape ...
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94%
The First Teacher (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist ...
Style: political
Plot: post soviet, reflection, world war one, nudity, child marriage, teacher, children, arranged marriage, river, bare breasts, sheep, communist ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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80%
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Fast-Walking (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Style: political, independent film, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: prison, woman with a gun, blaxploitation, murder, corrupt, revolutionary, security guard, stoner, escape, confined, unlikely partners, militant ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: montana, usa, oregon
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79%
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Workers, Peasants (2001)
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: light
Plot: communism, woods, fascist, runaway, tree, class struggle, winter, widow, prodigal son, snow, classroom, beating
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Brig (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style: experimental, political, independent film
Plot: sadism, discipline, theatre play, violence, cell, soldier, prisoner, prison, military, dehumanization, verbal abuse, u.s. marine corps
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68%
Gli Invisibili (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
Plot: years of lead, communist, terrorism, prison riot, working class, prison, organized crime, mafia, violence, friendship, police, jail ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
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67%
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Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
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62%
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: prison, power relations, battle of the sexes, confined, gender, chaos and mayhem, prison life, female warden, women's prison, prisoner
Time: 80s
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56%
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White Night (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Directed by Arnon Zadok.
Plot: prison, jail cell, drug rehab, friend, cell mate, drug use, friendship, sex, prisoner, prison warden, drug dealer, all male cast ...
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54%
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The Pacifist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
Style: political
Plot: communist, fascist, journalist, student protest, communism, russian roulette, religion, fashion model, repression, murder, love, shot to death ...
Place: milan italy
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53%
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The Dresser (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style: talky, realistic, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: gay lead character, lgbt, unrequited love, gay, backstage, world war two, friendship, shakespeare, actor, makeover, aging, railway ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, post world war two, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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King Rat (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
Style: black and white, realistic, bleak, sad, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner of war camp, world war, prisoners of war, military, friendship, bullying, great war, prisoner, prison life, british ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan, asia, singapore
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53%
Lessons at the End of Spring (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Plot: coming of age, prison, gay, youth, lgbtq, boyhood, detention, wrongful arrest, totalitarianism, communism, mother son relationship, rebellion ...
Time: 60s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Rather English Marriage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: senior citizen, widower, friendship, family relations, odd couple, gay interest, bittersweet, parents and children, singleness, working class, social differences, social worker ...
Time: 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Plot: cold war, gay, actress playing herself, hamlet, loneliness, cold war era, desertion, spy, iron curtain, autobiography, defector, espionage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep ...
Style: political, psychological, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: prison, gays and lesbians, homosexuality, politics, gay, friendship, homosexual, betrayal, prison sex, first gay sexual experience, transsexual, love story ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: latin america, brazil
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47%
Comrade Pedersen (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Style: philosophical, political
Plot: communist, marxism, communism, political activist, revolution, working class, butt, political activism, sex, erotica, bare chested male, scandinavian culture ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: scandinavia
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46%
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Bless You, Prison (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of ...
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, survival, human spirit, prison life, exhaustion, society, politics, rebelliousness, religions or cults, captivity, stalinism ...
Time: 50s
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Havlandet (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Plot: northern lights, wilderness, poverty, snow, travel, farm, weather, young
Time: 1860s
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44%
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Blind Flight (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
Style: sincere, serious, thought provoking, captivating, political ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, friendship, friendship between men, introspection, captivity, prison life, torture, hopes, confined, culture clash, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, middle east, lebanon
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Class Relations (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young man (Christian Heinisch), recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Style: political, contemplative, masterpiece
Plot: alienation, ship, communism, class struggle, labor, train, woman, family relations, young
Time: year 1984
Place: usa, new york
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41%
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
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40%
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Judgement in Berlin (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, touching, sincere ...
Plot: terrorism, justice, politics, hijacking, legal action, legal, courtroom drama, fighting the system, confined, save the day, danger, culture clash ...
Time: 70s
Place: germany, europe, east berlin, berlin germany, west berlin west germany ...
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40%
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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39%
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Spring Night (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A story of two siblings who for the first time spend a night without their parents, and are visited by strangers who ask for room for the night. Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas.
Plot: youth, mental illness, sex, death, depression, stranger, spring, birth, farm, male female relationship, vagina
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
Plot: landscape, marxist, gulag, dissident, faith, marxism, christian, genocide, communism, love, artist
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Mandela (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Plot: black history, forced labor, racial discrimination, racial tension, racial prejudice, apartheid, racism, interracial relations, massacre, prison
Time: 20th century
Place: africa
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39%
The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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37%
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Stuck! (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek ...
Style: independent film, neo noir
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, women in prison, lesbian relationship, lesbian, jail, security guard, prisoner, female nudity, guilt, suicide, prison guard, diary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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