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Fox: Hunter (1993)
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Fox: Hunter (1993)
Original name: Vulpe - vânător
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Plot: communism, romanian revolution, friendship, fear, dictatorship, trust, totalitarian state, secret police, surveillance
Place: romania
Keyword: romanian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, political, tense and realistic films with plots about communism, dictatorship, friendship, politics, communist, father son relationship and family relations mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fox: Hunter: Requiem for Dominic (1990), Betrayal (1993), Shores of Hope (2012), The Eternal Road (2017), The Unburied Man (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Requiem for Dominic (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in ...
Plot: politics, exile, communism, dictatorship, demonstration, revolution, romanian revolution, totalitarian state
Place: romania
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Betrayal (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Plot: romanian revolution, communism, artist, totalitarian regime, agent, family relations, death of friend, democracy, anti communist, port, police inspector, poetry ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: romania, paris france
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
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Plot: youth, friendship, hopes, coming of age, siblings relations, exile, rebelliousness, human spirit, reform, family relations, warning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 163 min.
Story: When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected ...
Plot: communism, dictatorship, dictator, international relations, rebellion, propaganda, world war two, suicide, torture, nationalist, red army, fascism ...
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Shores of Hope (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: friendship, ambition, relationship vs career, dishonesty, moral dilemma, investigation, danger, betrayal, snitch, dictatorship, dictator, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, german democratic republic, east germany
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The Eternal Road (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: immigrant, espionage, great depression, communism, family relations, secret police, idealism, fear, mass murder, violence, american history, getting home ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1938, year 1937
Place: soviet union, germany
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The Unburied Man (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by ...
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Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1956
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The Ambassador to Bern (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A fictional account of the 1958 attack against the Hungarian embassy in Bern. Based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Plot: immigrant, shootout, embassy, communism, hostage situation
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The Silent Revolution (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
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Mother (1990)
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Duration: 200 min.
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The Beheaded Rooster (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
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Plot: totalitarian state, fascism, rivalry, class differences, fanatic, jewish girl, group of friends, treason, strong female character, friendship, nazi propaganda, betrayal by friend ...
Time: 1940s
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Virgin Mary (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Croatia, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Country: Finland, Soviet Union
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