Movies like The Trial of the Judges

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The Trial of the Judges (1974)
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The Trial of the Judges (1974)
Original name: Η Δίκη των Δικαστών
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating.
Style: heroic
Plot: independence, prison, king, heroes, legal action, death, soldier, judge, tragedy, greek, security guard, lie, death sentence, heroism, jury, problem, guillotine, killing an animal, chief, imperialism, courtroom, minister, imprisonment, warlord, decision ...
Time: 70s, 1830s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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Most similar movies to The Trial of the Judges

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about greek, hellenic, courtroom, society, death, trial and prison mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Trial of the Judges: Lola (1964), The Downhill (1961), A Quiet Death (1986), 1922 (1978), Inherit the Wind (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lola (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slum area in Piraeus. His purpose is not to settle his own accounts but to find out if Lola (Tzeni Karezi), a young woman who works at Stelios’ ...
Plot: gang, assassin, betrayal, desire, imprisonment, greek, loyalty, prostitute, prison, criminal as protagonist, released from prison, organized crime ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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The Downhill (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Greek teenage drama
Style: neo noir
Plot: revenge, teenage sexuality, nudity, passion, court, friend, humiliation, love, womanizer, arrogance, striptease, libertine ...
Time: 60s
Place: athens greece, greece, hellas
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A Quiet Death (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more ...
Plot: truck driver, grandfather, childhood, lesbian sex, cathartic, bare breasts, city, writers, husband, female pubic hair, wine, death ...
Time: 80s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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1922 (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been ...
Plot: greco turkish war, greek, myth, mythology, biopic, atrocity, oppression, musket, humility, midget, castration, nationalism ...
Time: 1920s
Place: greece, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Inherit the Wind (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Style: contemplative, talky, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, religion, lawyer, evolution, legal, bigotry, religions or cults, social relations, small town, small town life, rebellion ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa
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February 15, 1839 (2001)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, ...
Style: political
Plot: british empire, death sentence, prison, execution
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: quebec
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48%
One Day in August (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their ...
Plot: blaster, multiple storylines, beach, male nudity, vacation, accident, holiday, athenian, car accident, summer, family relations, rain ...
Time: 2000s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Photograph (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding ...
Plot: friendship, politics, photograph, communist, correspondence, unrequited love, anarchist, blaster, persecution, chaos, greek, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: paris france
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44%
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Alexander the Great (1980)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - ...
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, greek, mythology, labor, myth, union, anarchy, peplum, strike, utopia, wrestling ...
Time: year 1980, turn of the century, 1900s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece
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Days of 36 (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
Plot: military dictatorship, anarchist, radical, mythology, greek, myth, politician, kidnapping, poison, hostage, interwar period, politics ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s
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The Eichmann Show (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf ...
Style: serious, clever, realistic, captivating, dark ...
Plot: trial, media, genocide, nazi war criminal, holocaust, world war two, war criminal, nazi germany, shoah, nazi, judge, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: israel, lithuania, jerusalem
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Some Mother's Son (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style: political, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, prison violence, terrorist, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, british, struggle, trouble ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
Style: captivating, serious, stylized, realistic, social ...
Plot: revolution, pirate, ambition, political intrigue, political unrest, state affairs, rise to the top, idealism, dishonesty, imperialism, greek, economist ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 2010s
Place: greece, ottoman empire, russia, europe, hellas ...
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39%
The Flower of the Lake (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kastoria, a region in Western Macedonia at the turn of the century. Greeks, Turks, Jews and other nationalities live together under the rule of the Ottoman empire, amid the despair, the uncertainty and the confusion brought about by the 1897 war ...
Plot: greek, death, revolution, partisan, captain, snow, wound, turk, family man, bazaar, fisherman, lake ...
Time: 1900s, 90s
Place: greece, hellas, ottoman empire
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39%
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The Crucible (1967)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
Style: allegory
Plot: slavery, aftermath, salem witch trial, hanging, adolescence, suicide attempt, death of husband, religious fundamentalism, feud, expert, dancing, infidelity ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
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Plot: shakespeare, death of daughter, friendship, sibling rivalry, murder of daughter, illegitimate son, illegitimate child, death, king, tragedy, father daughter reunion, father daughter relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Parallel stories of Eros set in 200 B.C. Nomadic shepherds, plagued by drought, happen on a fishing encampment with plentiful fresh water. The local men are away but will return when it rains; the shepherds stay to refresh their flock until the rain ...
Style: black and white, tragic ending, independent film, avant garde, allegory ...
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Place: greece, mediterranean sea, hellas, athens greece, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Plot: world war two, world war, submarine, kriegsmarine, spy, fighter, british, paratrooper, resistance, greek, army, german soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, year 1941
Place: crete, hellas, greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
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Style: touching, suspenseful, sincere, psychological, tension
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Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
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Matchbox (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min.
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23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 188 min.
Story: Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter, is arrested for killing the British official responsible for the death of his mentor Lala Lajpatrai. He is ultimately hanged for his misdeed.
Style: disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, captivating
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: independent film
Plot: prison, murder, courtroom, jury, redemption, trial
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974
Plot: greek civil war, politics, myth, artist, radical, greek, mythology, couples, civil war, imprisonment, dictatorship, freedom ...
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Roe v. Wade (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: abortion, conspiracy, court, lawsuit, women's rights, court case, courtroom drama, social problems, family problems, civil rights, social relations, human rights ...
Time: 70s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After the Albanian war, the Kyriakos Platanias xanagyrnaei in the village, his little white, but with many badges and mutilated legs. The father of the delight that was always proud of his son could not bear the situation and resort to drink. Soon, ...
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Time: 70s
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Cries of the Unborn (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When three young, pregnant women are held against their will, a jury must examine just how far they would go to save a life.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak
Plot: female protagonist, jury, judge, courtroom drama, women, pregnancy and birth, legal investigation, trial, legal action, lawsuit, courtroom, pregnant woman ...
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The Molly Maguires (1970)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: terrorism, coal mining, fighting the system, injustice, working undercover, society, social decay, legal, rebel, union, sabotage, coal mine ...
Time: 19th century, year 1970, 1870s
Place: usa, america, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Mediterranean In Flames (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets
Plot: world war two, world war, captain, code, love, german soldier, commander, battles, athenian, seduction, secret, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1941, 70s
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Lieutenant Natassa (1970)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian ...
Plot: world war two, world war, resistance fighter, freedom fighter, ruins, freedom, forgiveness, athenian, torment, combat casualty, impersonation, survivor ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 70s
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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