Movies like 1922 1978

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1922 (1978)
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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 arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
Plot: greco turkish war, greek, mythology, myth, biopic, horse, village, rape, teacher, desert, striptease, female nudity, water, torture, soldier, genocide, muslim, brutality, midget, massacre, dwarf, pow, castration, shooting, nationalism ...
Time: 1920s
Place: greece, ottoman empire
Keyword: armenian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and disturbing films with plots about greek, politics, execution, mythology, torture, death and female nudity mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like 1922: Days of 36 (1972), Alexander the Great (1980), The Man with the Carnation (1980), The Lark Farm (2007), Stone Years (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Place: greece, europe
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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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The Man with the Carnation (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
Plot: greek civil war, politics, mythology, greek, myth, prime minister, political intrigue, communism, post civil war, communist party, political oppression, political persecution ...
Place: greece
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58%
The Lark Farm (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot: armenian genocide, genocide, world war one, family relations, siblings relations, life turned upside down, wartime life, life is a bitch, turkish history, love and romance, deportation, great war ...
Time: year 1915, 20th century, 1920s
Place: armenia, ottoman empire, turkey, middle east
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56%
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Stone Years (1985)
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 ...
Place: greece
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Caravan Serai (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter ...
Plot: greek civil war, imperialism, communism, handicapped, family relations, greek, brother sister relationship, carriage, refugee, homecoming, communist, arrest ...
Place: greece
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54%
The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: refugee, greek, village, wartime life, tragic love, on the run, orphan, political unrest, genocide, politics, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1940s ...
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
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49%
The Trial of the Judges (1974)
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 ...
Style: heroic
Plot: independence, false witness, ministry, problem, fabrication, king, public, heroism, prison, death sentence, chief, decision ...
Time: 70s, 1830s
Place: hellas, greece, athens greece
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48%
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The Massacre of Glencoe (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.
Plot: drunkenness, deadline, murder, massacre, conspiracy, betrayal, sword, treason, atrocity, musket, horse, drinking ...
Time: 17th century
Place: scottish highlands, scotland
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Sweet Country (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Plot: capitalism, coup, politics, female pubic hair, bare breasts, sexual humiliation, death, humiliation, bomb, military, female nudity, torture ...
Time: year 1987
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
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42%
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Caligula (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, controversial, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ancient rome, ancient world, sex, brutality, incest, sexploitation, explicit sex, roman empire, nudity, sexuality, sexual perversion, sex orgy ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1979
Place: rome italy, italy, greece
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41%
Letters from Marusia (1975)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The ...
Plot: strike, union, labor, anarchist, latin american history, worker, town, horse, suicide, train, school, massacre ...
Place: chile, south america
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Zelazna reka (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Drama directed by Ryszard Ber.
Plot: mission, female nudity, traitor, intrigue, outlaw, royal court, best friend, secret agent, battles, decapitation, exile, polish history ...
Time: 16th century
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Devil's Bride (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666, during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed. ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, historical drama
Plot: witch hunt, witch, false accusation, adultery, betrayal, jealousy, witchcraft, fall in love, lie, village, rural setting, young woman ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: finland
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38%
The Travelling Players (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min.
Story: This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, art film, aesthetic ...
Plot: world war two, greek, masturbation, greek civil war, resistance, mythology, partisan, anarchist, sex crime, time travel, myth, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1975, year 1952 ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece
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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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Iphigenia (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot: ancient history, greek mythology, mythology, ancient, myth, ancient world, antiquity, legends and myths, greek, king, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy, europe
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35%
Adults in the Room (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic ...
Style: political, tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: biopic, financial crisis, politics, debt, politician, economic crisis, bankruptcy, political conspiracy, political unrest, money problems, financial problem, world politics ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: greece, paris france, frankfurt germany, london, europe
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32%
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Young Aphrodites (1963)
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 ...
Plot: shepherd, young love, female nudity, children, coming of age, minimalism, surrealism, first love, sensuality, unrequited love, gay subtext, sexual harassment ...
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, hellas, athens greece, ancient greece
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32%
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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32%
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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31%
A Necklace for My Beloved (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember ...
Plot: circus, mountain, motorcycle, village, adventurer, horse, baby, tradition, brother brother relationship, birth, fiancee, soviet ...
Place: caucasus
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31%
Sometimes in April (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Rwanda, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, bleak, sad ...
Plot: genocide, massacre, against humanity, murder, civil war, racism, rwandan genocide, mass murder, coup, battles, politics, political unrest ...
Time: year 2005, year 1994, 90s
Place: africa, rwanda, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
Style: epic, independent film, talky, serious, realistic
Plot: greek mythology, mythology, ancient, myth, antiquity, legends and myths, ancient world, woman, women, greek, female nudity, enslavement ...
Time: ancient times, year 1971
Place: ancient greece, greece
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31%
City of Life and Death (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story: City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, black and white, tense ...
Plot: world war two, japanese army, sino japanese war, sexual abuse, war crime, japanese occupation of china, war atrocity, atrocity, japanese occupation, life is a bitch, mass murder, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 2010s, year 1938, 20th century ...
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: imperialism, desert, colonialism, prisoners of war, interrogation, torture, forbidden love, danger, social decay, couples, love affair, disorder ...
Time: victorian era
Place: italy, austria, mongolia, east asia
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30%
Bonifacio, the First President (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of Andres Bonifacio, a man who rose as a leader in the fight against the Spanish oppressors, and would gain the enmity of even those fighting for the same cause.
Plot: marxist, hanging, cannon, sword fight, freemason, murder, newspaper, election, church, raid, teacher, freedom fighter ...
Time: 19th century
Place: the philippines
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29%
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers ...
Style: anthology
Plot: diaspora, genocide, greek, armenian genocide, musician, turkish history, city, daughter, mother
Place: turkey, middle east, greece, ottoman empire, istanbul turkey
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29%
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 205 min.
Story: A BBC miniseries based loosely on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James I of England.
Style: historical drama, realistic, captivating, serious, political ...
Plot: royal family, king, queen, intrigue, execution, tudors, coronation, royalty, monarchy, monarch, power, betrayal ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century, middle ages, ancient times
Place: england, scotland, britain, london
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29%
Carol's Journey (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: spanish civil war, youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, village, wartime life, human nature, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: new york, spain, europe, usa, madrid ...
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29%
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