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Milada (2017)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating, historical drama
Plot:
european history, prisoner, lawyer, world war two, communism, death sentence, czech history, politics, jail, husband wife relationship, strong female character, trial, judge, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, courtroom, sister sister relationship, women, cold war, strength, girl, injustice, bureaucracy, biopic, famous people ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe, prague czechoslovakia, prague czech republic
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, historical drama and realistic films with plots about biopic, husband wife relationship, world war two, politics, female protagonist, lawyer and court mostly in Biography, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Milada: Burning Bush (2013), Devil's Mistress (2016), Oppenheimer (2023), Harriet (2019), On the Basis of Sex (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 75 min.
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 120 min.
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Story:
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Style:
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