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Angelus novus (1987)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know. This is hardly surprising, given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of "the sociology of conscience." Pasolini, who at one point was convicted of the crime of "offending the religion of the (Italian) state" (Catholicism), later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, thought provoking, allegory, political, controversial, art house, reflective, bleak, experimental ...
Plot:
poet, biopic, screenwriter, marxism, portrait, symbolism, italian politics, religion, life & death, scandal, violent death, conscience, catholicism, blasphemy, metaphysics, sociology, adaptation, gay, politics, death, murder, swimming, boy, homosexual, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, intellectual, melancholic and reflective films with plots about biopic, death, memory, character study, flashback, adaptation and writers mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Angelus novus: Wojaczek (1999), The Smell of Humans (2022), Pasolini (2014), Communists (2014), The Death of Socrates (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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intense, art house, melancholic, grim, bleak ...
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
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reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 84 min.
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Plot:
death, sex scene, gay, female nudity, filmmaker, artists and showbiz, murder, interview, society, biopic, writers, nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
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Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charged with homosexuality and imprisoned in the Schirmeck concentration camp. He survived this terrifying experience of torture and humiliation, and ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, period piece, political ...
Plot:
holocaust, gay slur, biopic, world war two, survival, trauma, persecution, concentration camp, lgbtq, torture, social commentary, repression ...
Time:
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Place:
france
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65%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr
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53
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.
Style:
art house, experimental, reflective, non-linear, intellectual ...
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Time:
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752
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
54%
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Duration: 105 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
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Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
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Style:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
spiritual, inspirational, reflective, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience:
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