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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
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Original name: 華岡青洲の妻
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
Style:
period piece, historical drama, melancholic, grim, art house, jidai geki
Plot:
anesthetic, feudal japan, biopic, ethical dilemma, obsession, romantic rivalry, family tragedy, family relations, asian history, tragic romance, character study, moral ambiguity, cancer, human experiment, medical, rivalry, loyalty, husband wife relationship, loss of eyesight, feud, samurai, mother son relationship, psychological drama, devotion, human experimentation
Time:
18th century, 1790s
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, period piece, melancholic and art house films with plots about biopic, moral ambiguity, character study, loyalty, psychological drama, female protagonist and tragedy mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka: Not Reconciled (1965), Young Andersen (2005), Ninja 4: Siege (1964), Two Lines in Small Font (1981), What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (Japanese: 海賊とよばれた男 Hepburn: Kaizoku to yobareta otoko) is a best selling Japanese historical novel by Naoki Hyakuta. As of January 2014, it had sold over 1,700,000 copies.[1] In April 2013, it won ...
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oil industry, post war japan, oil, oil company, oil tycoon, historical figure, biopic, resilience, leadership, perseverance, entrepreneurship, ambition ...
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Place:
japan, iran
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, ...
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historical drama, family saga, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, reconciliation, german history, betrayal, memory, suppression, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, revenge, symbolism, loyalty ...
Time:
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Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that ...
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period piece, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, coming of age, hans christian andersen, school, character study, personal growth, ambition, identity crisis, isolation, social class, poet ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in ...
Style:
tense, period piece, historical drama, suspenseful, grim ...
Audience:
adult
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ninja, samurai, swordplay, siege, medieval, ruse, feudal japan, power struggle, castle, espionage, political intrigue, betrayal ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film by Melnikov.
Style:
historical drama, reflective, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric ...
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suicide, justice, legacy, tragic past, investigation, ethical dilemma, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, biopic, political repression, conspiracy, revolution ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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He lost his land, his father, and was torn from his mother. Lonely and wounded, young Takechiyo thought he'd live out his days quietly as a hostage. But fate had other plans. Inspired by Mikawa warriors, he becomes a minor lord and dives into a ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, battles, edo period, life, feudal japan, relationships, family life, family relations, dysfunctional family, fight, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Place:
japan
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81%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the ...
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Plot:
scientific discovery, epidemic, biopic, maternity ward, hospital, investigation, realism, social criticism, ethical dilemma, character study, obsession, tragic hero ...
Time:
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Place:
vienna
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74%
416
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
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historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
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theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
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Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
hunger, starvation, loss, family tragedy, village life, realism, mourning, survival, social commentary, oppression, memory, political repression ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, dramatic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
18th century
Place:
naples italy, italy
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.
Style:
art house, historical drama, tense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
murder case, investigation, gender roles, claustrophobia, guilt, infidelity, courtroom, jealousy, scandal, forbidden romance, class conflict, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1955
Place:
chile
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
north pole, expedition, rivalry, controversy, biopic, ambition, survival, travel and leisure, perseverance, isolation, naval officer, character study ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Love, passion, and murder haunt a passionate romance in this drama. When the young soldier meets Helene, a torrid affair begins. 15 years after the war has ended, Max finds out that the love of his life was murdered in a concentration camp, setting ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, dramatic ...
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Time:
1950s, 1940s
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61%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The last year of Ryotaro Shiba's life, as he tried to achieve peace and independence without joining the armies of East and West.
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, captivating, serious, melancholic ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style:
serious, bleak, historical drama, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, nurse, vivisection, guilt, accomplice, mature, atrocity, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, war crime, mental disorder, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
japan
Similarity:
56%
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, bleak, family saga ...
Plot:
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Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, surreal, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, orphan, dealing with death, death in the family, oppression, patriarchy, social injustice, women's rights ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
nepal, asia
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53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due ...
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Similarity:
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153
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Meera is a 1979 Hindi language film by Gulzar. The film is based on the life of Meera, a Hindu saint-poet who renounced princely comforts in pursuit of her love for Lord Krishna.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, art house
Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 148 min.
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Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
battles, samurai sword, martial arts, emperor, power struggle, warrior, intrigue, fight, empire, life is a bitch, biopic, political conflict ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
51%
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Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, political thriller, grim
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 ...
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historical drama, psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, political thriller, period piece, thought provoking, tense ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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historical drama, bleak, grim, period piece, melancholic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
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Duration: 101 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical romance, stylized, melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
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