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A Day Longer Than a Year (1971)
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A Day Longer Than a Year (1971)
Original name: Dan duži od godine
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.
Plot: earthquake, prison, fight, police officer, escape, death, accident, fear, blood, chaos, husband wife relationship, car, collapse, fate, destiny, police car
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, yugoslavia
Keyword: mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out black and white, epic, crying and captivating films with plots about death, blood, fear, fight, husband wife relationship, murder and world war two mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like A Day Longer Than a Year: The Trek (1968), Wedding (1973), Massacre at Noon (1975), Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967), In Four Rows (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Trek (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all ...
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, farmer, calf, fate, hiding place, death, escape, fear, murder, blood, massacre ...
Time: year 1943
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
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95%
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in ...
Style: crying, heroic
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, heroism, fire department, murder, bomb, train, military, death, betrayal, police ...
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the ...
Style: epic
Plot: wedding, mythology, bloodbath, village, running, love, escape, blood, fear, death, girl, innocent ...
Place: ottoman empire, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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In Four Rows (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
Plot: world war two, partisan, massacre, slaughter, fate, bombing, anarchy, exile, motorcycle, hunger, air raid, retreat ...
Time: year 1945
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Downstream from the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national ...
Style: black and white, crying, learning
Plot: school, mountain, remote village, woods, tree, education, police officer, family relations, job, school teacher, blood, police ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Return (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: black, prison, rape, rivalry, murder, police operation, ex convict, motorcycle accident, gang leader, soccer, police officer, freight train
Place: balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Women in Prison (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town with her small child, alcohol addiction, and the battle with the prisoners and prison brutality ...
Plot: women's prison, police officer, junkie, husband wife relationship, prisoner, prison, blood, hotel, drinking, airplane, police, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Escapes (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Plot: world war two, partisan, prisoner, fight, traitor, cold, escape, hunger, political prisoner, sick, girl, prison ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Handcuffs (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is ...
Style: black and white
Plot: black, wedding, secret police, peasant, rural setting, rape, communism, handcuffs
Place: croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic ...
Style: sexual, tension
Plot: vacation, female pubic hair, cuckolded husband, sex scene, older man younger woman marriage, woman seduces a man, female nudity, forbidden love, sea, brother sister sex, nudity, man hits a woman ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Dorotheus (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, grabs the attention of warlord's wife.
Style: light
Plot: monk, ancient, forbidden love, church, medieval, nudity, help, starvation, hiding place, fear, medicine, blood ...
Time: medieval times
Place: serbia
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39%
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Carl & Bertha (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carl & Bertha tells the story of Carl and Bertha Benz. Carl Benz invented the first patented motor car but he did not get much recognition until his wife undertook the historic first road trip by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim with the Benz ...
Style: captivating, factual, inspirational, psychological
Plot: inventor, invention, husband wife relationship, car, love, wedding, son, rivalry, society, woman, employer, child ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s
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Kuduz (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills ...
Plot: female nudity, muslim, bride and groom, adultery, hiding, outlaw, revenge motive, mountain, nudity, jealousy, drunkenness, prison ...
Place: bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
Plot: mistress, surgeon, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, drunkenness, family relations, divorce, rain, jealousy, father, singing ...
Place: former yugoslavia
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Battle of Kosovo (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Boj na Kosovu) is a 1989 Yugoslav historical drama/war film filmed in Serbia. The film was based on the drama written by poet Ljubomir Simovic. It depicts the historical Battle of Kosovo between Medieval Serbia and the ...
Style: crying, dark, epic, light
Plot: time machine, ancient, medieval, battles, battlefield, historical event, last supper, turk, death of father, husband wife relationship, sacrifice, blood ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century
Place: kosovo, ottoman empire, turkey
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All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot: single mother, widow, father son relationship, death of father, death, accident, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, love, loss of father, family relations, loss of husband ...
Time: 1910s
Place: tennessee
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Crazy Days (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A group of Dalmatian guest workers from Germany come to their native town on Easter holidays. They usually spend time in a local pub playing cards, drinking and yelling. Jure is the most successful and bragging among them, while Klempo is considered ...
Plot: wealth, immigrant, nudity, jealousy, death, singing, sex, bus, money, male nudity, waitress, power ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: captivating, disturbing
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Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
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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 ...
Style: political
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Spadijer: One Life (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
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Second Sight (1994)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Maren, a young girl, is the sole survivor of the Black Death in her Norwegian village. Using instincts, folklore, luck, and the clairvoyant powers granted her by being born with a "Victory Cap," Maren survives on her own, waiting for other ...
Plot: plague, disease, viking, accident, virus, medieval, pandemic, psychic, legend, village, survival, nudity ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
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31%
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Variola Vera (1982)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The subject of the film is the 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia, more specifically the events related to the epidemic and the subsequent quarantine at Belgrade's General Hospital. The film follows the journey of a Kosovar pilgrim on his ...
Style: apocalyptic, retro, scary, serious, bleak ...
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The Battle on the River Neretva (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, machine gun, tank, world war, revolutionary war, judaism, struggle, freedom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, croatia, bosnia, europe
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The Fall of Italy (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
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Style: epic
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Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On the eve of a civil war, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
Style: pre war
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Place: finland, russia
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Special Education (1977)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Genre: Drama
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Story: Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and ...
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