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The Blood of Hussain (1980)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
Style:
bleak, tragic ending, grim, period piece, political drama
Plot:
dictatorship, rebellion, revolution, resistance, military coup, social injustice, oppression, political repression, authoritarianism, poverty, sacrifice, class struggle, human rights, symbolism, martyrdom, courage, prophecy, guerilla warfare, family drama, brotherhood, family tragedy, underground movement, nationalism, muslim, exile ...
Place:
poetic realism, pakistan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, period piece, historical drama and melancholic films with plots about oppression, sacrifice, human rights, resistance, social injustice, authoritarianism and betrayal mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Blood of Hussain: Call Girl '88 (1988), One Man's War (1991), The River with No Bridge (1992), The Uprising (1966), The Year of the Cannibals (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
Style:
erotic, depressing
Plot:
prostitution, call girl, street walker, dead body, nurse, prostitute, rape, sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, doctor, swimming pool ...
Place:
hong kong
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to ...
Style:
tension, emotional, suspense, bleak, political thriller ...
Plot:
justice, corruption, human rights, oppression, revenge, social injustice, authoritarianism, repression, dictatorship, family tragedy, courage, family drama ...
Place:
paraguay, latin america
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE begins in 1908 and tells the story of a widow, Fude HATANAKA and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, who live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, art house, melancholic, saga ...
Plot:
social injustice, prejudice, racial discrimination, poverty, bullying, small town, family drama, harassment, class struggle, oppression, coming of age, brotherhood ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
village, class struggle, oppression, rape, sexual abuse, repression, political unrest, poverty, social realism, massacre, riot, rebellion ...
Time:
1900s, 90s
Place:
romania, transylvania
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, ...
Style:
art house, bleak, grim, melancholic, slow cinema ...
Plot:
oppression, dystopia, totalitarianism, political protest, urban decay, rebellion, tragedy, absurdism, sacrifice, satire, existentialism, class struggle ...
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
36%
418
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, melancholic, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, authoritarianism, repression, execution, torture, doubt, human rights, tragedy, moral ambiguity, resistance, martyrdom, sacrifice ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, bleak, period piece, thought provoking ...
Plot:
political repression, social realism, father son relationship, village life, class struggle, oppression, cold war era, moral ambiguity, resistance, revenge, betrayal, boredom ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
national identity, social injustice, identity crisis, moral dilemma, oppression, occupation, nationalism, ethnic conflict, class conflict, resistance, betrayal, revenge
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
martial law, dictatorship, activism, political repression, family drama, kids and family, social issues, family life, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships, family relations ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1917 Crete, a humble peasant mother raises her orphaned nephew while trying to protect him from an absurd vendetta.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, grim, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
vendetta, motherhood, family drama, protection, revenge, sacrifice, orphan, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, small town, survival ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
crete
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university ...
Style:
dark, bleak, serious, historical drama, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
torture, police brutality, authoritarianism, political repression, oppression, imprisonment, social injustice, sacrifice, resistance, conscience, tragedy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
Style:
tense, tension, bleak, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
oppression, authoritarianism, resistance, fight for freedom, survival, military police, escape, hopes, love story, courage, idealism, underground movement ...
Place:
portugal, italy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
September 1980. Mustafa 'Mehmet Ali Alabora' and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, despite the ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, art house, political drama, tragic
Plot:
wrongful arrest, military coup, mistaken identity, political repression, authoritarianism, oppression, ordinary people, family drama, civil liberties, fear, police station, human rights ...
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.
Style:
tense, bleak, intense, political thriller
Plot:
moral dilemma, turkish army, brotherhood, political unrest, identity crisis, sacrifice, family drama, authoritarianism, court martial, persecution, tragic past, betrayal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
This series examines the events leading up the brutal murder of Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal and her two activist sisters, on the orders of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
dictatorship, resistance, dissident, politics, activism, women's rights, courage, human rights, political repression, oppression, latin american history, injustice ...
Place:
dominican republic, latin america
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, grim, costume drama, epic
Plot:
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Place:
macedonia, ottoman empire
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, slave, black slave, civil war, oppression, social injustice, interracial relations, plantation, sadism, brutality, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope—and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their ...
Style:
emotional, uplifting, tension, educational, political drama
Plot:
courage, female protagonist, education, social justice, inspiration, human rights, empowerment, teacher, activism, resistance, hopes, oppression ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
27%
440
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Shankar (Manoj Kumar), his lovely wife Geeta (Nanda) and Deepak (Master Satyajeet) are a poor but happy family. Tragedy strikes one day, when Deepak wonders over to the railway tracks. When Geeta rushes in to warn and rescue him, she is run over by ...
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, period drama
Plot:
poverty, sacrifice, mute child, family tragedy, domestic drama, social realism, friendship, surgery, resilience, grief, working class, perseverance ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her ...
Style:
islamic, emotional, bleak, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
women's prison, prison, survival, midwife, abuse, warden, mother and daughter, religion, punishment, redemption, oppression, bombing ...
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Davoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they have to bear her expenses too. Davoud loves film making ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
poverty, desperation, father son conflict, family drama, sacrifice, unemployment, class struggle, working class, social realism, moral dilemma, ambition, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iran
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During Second World War a beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
Style:
period piece, poignant, bleak, intense, political drama
Plot:
world war two, torture, betrayal, sacrifice, resistance, occupation, nazi occupation, double agent, tragic romance, partisan, espionage, underground movement ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
26%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coup d'etat, coup, family relations, lifestyle change, struggle, wrongful imprisonment, family problems, parents and children, family life, social relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, intense, period piece, road movie ...
Plot:
biopic, authoritarianism, oppression, political repression, character study, kurd, surveillance, exile, resistance, tragic hero, human rights, autobiography ...
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite ...
Style:
satirical, grim, cynical, bleak, surreal ...
Plot:
prison, journalist, torture, island, dictatorship, oppression, authoritarianism, repression, propaganda, human rights, totalitarianism, manipulation ...
Place:
latin america, chile
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S ...
Style:
tragic ending, bleak, art house, islamic, political drama
Plot:
political oppression, police station, love triangle, sacrifice, female protagonist, war crime, moral ambiguity, martyrdom, underground movement, love, torture, self sacrifice ...
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, reflective, melancholic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child protagonist, mother son relationship, ramadan, innocence, coming of age, political repression, loss of innocence, human rights, absent father, imprisonment, memory, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
morocco, north africa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, ...
Style:
art house, family saga, bleak, period piece, political ...
Plot:
kurd, social realism, poverty, survival, feud, political corruption, loss, journey, bribery, train travel, class struggle, migration ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, balkan
Similarity:
24%
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