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Carl & Bertha (2011)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Carl & Bertha tells the story of Carl and Bertha Benz. Carl Benz invented the first patented motor car but he did not get much recognition until his wife undertook the historic first road trip by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen No. 3 in August 1888.
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational, factual
Plot:
inventor, invention, husband wife relationship, car, love, wedding, son, rivalry, society, victorian england, children, money, pregnancy, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, pregnant woman, woman, child, pharmacist, daughter, driving, pharmacy, carriage, employee, dowry ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and serious films with plots about society, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, victorian england, rivalry, biopic and love mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Carl & Bertha: The Viceroys (2007), Measuring the World (2012), The Current War (2017), Cyrano, My Love (2018), Felicitas (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two brothers start a sportswear company in the 1920s, hoping to make the best shoes in the world. Their relationship deteriorates until they become bitter rivals.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
rise to the top, brother brother relationship, businessman, world war two, family relations, friendship, society, disagreement, startup, business, entrepreneur, monkey ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 120 min.
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family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, revolution, dishonesty, society, family life, palace intrigue, victorian england, power struggle ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 119 min.
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Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Style:
clever, realistic, suspense, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
inventor, technology, electricity, science and technology, genius, rivalry, science, invention, physics, discovery, storytelling, biopic ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
writers, love, theater, hopes, escapades, writer's life, obsession, ambition, friendship, life philosophy, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period piece
Plot:
forbidden love, separation, star crossed lovers, love story, male female relationship, love interest, couples, relationship problems, society, love affair, relationships, patriarchy ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
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34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
post war germany, world war two, post war, children, coming of age, survival, child, teenager, kids in trouble, orphan, brothers, teenage life ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1946
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot:
professor, redemption, schizophrenia, insane asylum, mental patient, biopic, friendship, direction and purpose, winston churchill, society, shared dream, book ...
Time:
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Place:
england, oxford university
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33%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. ...
Style:
realistic, epic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
revolution, rebellion, political unrest, society, tragic love, wartime life, couple relations, soldier, injustice, rivalry, napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), is a simple postman who travels every day along the Drôme, from village to village. Alone, he is upset when he meets the woman of his life, Philomena (Laetitia Casta). From ...
Style:
sentimental, psychological, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
postman, father daughter relationship, obsession, construction, socially awkward, palace, family relations, love, french countryside, couples, society, victorian england ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Style:
sad, surreal, dramatic, tragicomedy, stylized ...
Plot:
cat, artist, family relations, childhood trauma, painting, art, life is a bitch, life philosophy, painter, breast cancer, cancer, grief ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
london, new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Style:
suspenseful, touching, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
period drama
Plot:
hotel, father son relationship, victorian england, economist, violin, letter, bee, rain, funeral, hospital, rape, steam train ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, factual, banned
Plot:
politics, chinese history, revolution, society, state affairs, head of state, social differences, rebellion, communist party, chinese civil war, patriotism, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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30%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her peculiarity all her life to stay safe, shaving to fit in. Until Abel, an indebted bar owner ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
female masturbation, deer hunting, unhappy marriage, hair, orphanage, brothel, suicidal thoughts, bar owner, taxidermy, wedding, innkeeper, mob violence ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings ...
Style:
exciting, tense, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
biopic, spanish history, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, tall man, death of brother, loss of brother, death of father, loss of father, death, giant, world war one ...
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads them to the fashion world of the GDR. The ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, interesting
Plot:
female protagonist, fashion, photo model, seduction, attempted seduction, model, love interest, love affair, love story, male female relationship, couple relations, seductress ...
Place:
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Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan, Turkey
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this Japanese-Turkish blockbuster: The sinking of the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul off the Japanese coast in 1890, and the evacuation of Japanese nationals ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, psychological
Plot:
turkish history, turk, tragedy, sea disaster, typhoon, drowning, survival, danger, friendship, compassion, muslim, sultan ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 80s
Place:
japan, ottoman empire, turkey, iran, tehran iran ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A middle-aged woman follows letters from an unseen admirer into potential danger.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
holocaust, lawyer, nazi, prosecutor, post war germany, ex nazi, nazi war criminal, idealism, world war two, genocide, holocaust survivor, investigation ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1950s, year 1958, year 1963 ...
Place:
germany, frankfurt germany, west germany, berlin germany
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100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, epic, esoteric ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
Style:
inspirational, period piece, historical drama, uplifting, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
24%
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, serious, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tennessee
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures ...
Style:
political, realistic, semi serious, biting, humorous ...
Plot:
turk, economist, village, desert, dishonesty, society, rise to the top, master and servant, state affairs, social relations, dark humor, political corruption ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, year 1948
Place:
turkey, syria
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In an eastern Turkish town, suitors knock on the door of the mayor and father of three beautiful daughters who choose to follow their own paths.
Style:
romantic, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
garden, father and daughter, father daughter relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships, love story, lifestyle, relationship problems, family problems, male female relationship ...
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style:
frightening, captivating, psychological, tense, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
playwright, british history, shakespeare, historical figure, death of son, father daughter relationship, family secret, retirement, church, writers, biopic, society ...
Time:
ancient times, 17th century, medieval times
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, psychological, factual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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