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The Giant (2017)
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Original name: Handia
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 set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Style:
exciting, tense, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
biopic, spanish history, death, father son relationship, death of father, tall man, death of brother, brother brother relationship, loss of father, loss of brother, giant, world war one, ancient, victorian england, mediterranean, travel, sea, thief, wedding, queen, snow, sex scene, soldier, beach, doctor ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
basque country
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, serious and suspenseful films with plots about biopic, death, society, soldier, victorian england, father daughter relationship and family relations mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Giant: Finding Altamira (2016), Ceasefire (2016), The Liberator (2013), A March to Remember (2018), Comrades (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
cave, discovery, love triangle, faith, painter, buffalo, art, artist, real life, victorian england, husband wife relationship, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, prehistory, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
spain
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95%
576
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, rough, melancholic
Plot:
traumatized man, male objectification, brother brother relationship, self discovery, life, wartime, getting home, african tribe, african, deafness, traumatic experience, topless woman ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, post world war one, year 1916
Place:
africa, france, west africa
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84%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Spanish troops in the Philippines Have to fight for their lives as they are forgot by the Spanish Empire
Style:
perverse
Plot:
military, siege, spanish history, paranoia, hallucination, desertion, respect, tribute, drug, jungle, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
the philippines, southeast asia, spain, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of ...
Style:
captivating, serious, epic, political, tense ...
Plot:
revolution, revolutionary, military, war, biopic, battles, rebellion, leadership, ambition, state affairs, folk hero, leader ...
Time:
1820s, ancient times, 19th century, 18th century, georgian era
Place:
venezuela, latin america, colombia, andes mountains, madrid ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3rd, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, representatives of struggling workers call for a general strike. In the church of San Francisco, in the working class neighborhood ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching ...
Plot:
political repression, working class, labor strike, labor union, francisco franco, capitalist society, police, journalist, love triangle, police violence, catholic church, housewife ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, basque country
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59%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
deportation, labor union, union, strike, underdog, communism, resistance, labor, biopic, social differences, rich and poor, working class ...
Time:
19th century, year 1986
Place:
britain, australia, england
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
The historical rearguard last stand that took place on 13 July 1660 at a mountain pass in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande and Siddi Masud of Adilshah ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
military, bravery, warrior, indian history, battles, heroism, loyalty, sacrifice, warlord, final showdown, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
india
Similarity:
53%
717
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
natural disaster, building collapse, catastrophe, trapped, survival, struggle for survival, destruction, deathtrap, tragic event, demolished city, trap, teamwork ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andrea Pieri, a patriot ready to do anything to free Italy from the foreign oppressor. Wounded during a chase, Pieri takes refuge in the castle of ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating
Plot:
royal court, queen, italian history, war for independence, seduction, intrigue, attempted seduction, relationships, historical character, historical figure, palace intrigue, birth of a nation
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
52%
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 ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational, factual
Plot:
inventor, invention, husband wife relationship, car, love, wedding, son, rivalry, society, victorian england, woman, employer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Colombia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Portrays the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarized, violent Medellin of the 70s. A family man worried not only for his own children but those of the underprivileged classes as well, his home was ...
Style:
captivating, independent film, thought provoking
Plot:
biopic, repression, father son relationship, family relations, historical figure, life, political unrest, society, political intrigue, relationships, kids and family, family life ...
Time:
year 1971, year 1987, year 1983
Place:
colombia, latin america, iberian peninsula, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
love, unfulfilled love, mental disorder, lieutenant, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, downfall, unrequited love, women, crazy love, desire, stalking ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1975, 1860s ...
Place:
france, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, europe ...
Similarity:
45%
713
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Style:
rough, captivating, bleak, realistic, epic ...
Plot:
conquistador, spanish conquest, adventurer, amazon rainforest, treasure hunt, conquering, amazon jungle, colonial america, traveler, biopic, myth, rain forest ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
peru, spain, latin america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, hispanic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, spanish civil war, secret, revenge, assassination, political repression, fear, arrest, small village, spanish history, hiding place, delusion ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1936, year 1945 ...
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, andalusia, europe, morocco ...
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41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
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41%
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:
tense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, historical drama
Plot:
witch hunt, adultery, jealousy, black magic, witch, rural setting, priest, power, young woman, judge, rape, domestic violence ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times
Place:
finland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
shipwreck, titanic, investigation, political intrigue, sinking ship, sea disaster, cruise ship, castaway, puzzle, ship, sunken ship, crime solving ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
hotel, father son relationship, victorian england, economist, violin, letter, bee, rain, funeral, hospital, rape, steam train ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
writers, literature, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, obsession, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a true tale of power, corruption and murder, Christopher Walken stars in the story of the largest lynching in American history...
Style:
independent film, captivating, sincere, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, mafia, lynching, ancient, biopic, political intrigue, italian mafia, intrigue, italian gangster, immigrant, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1890s
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
38%
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:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns ...
Style:
touching, suspense, sincere, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
brother vs brother, family relations, father son relationship, inheritance, blackmail, orphan, drunkenness, love triangle, brother brother relationship, countryside, robot, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 2012, 19th century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style:
captivating, dark, historical drama, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
writers, victorian england, novelist, sisters, female writer, publisher, women, sister, historical figure, family relations, social relations, writer's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
yorkshire
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Style:
serious, sexual, sexy, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
depravity, female nudity, voyeurism, society, corporal punishment, fetish, porn, freak, sexual harassment, sexual perversion, manipulation, adult filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1998, victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just ...
Style:
romantic, epic, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
love story, culture clash, royal family, forbidden love, social differences, interracial relations, politics, love and romance, opposites attract, teacher, palace, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, 1860s, year 1999 ...
Place:
southeast asia, asia, thailand, madagascar, burma ...
Similarity:
36%
281
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Italy, September 1943. After the armistice and the flight of the King, the war theaters of the North-East see the advance of Tito's partisans. At the center of the story, in this dramatic historical context, the figure of Norma Cossetto, a ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
power struggle, soldier, life is a bitch, guerilla warfare, partisan, military, military life, wartime, wartime life, war, society, world war two ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
34%
2K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Style:
exciting, unusual plot structure, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
amazon rainforest, conquistador, desire, tribe, contests and competitions, danger, soldier, city, friendship, youth, society, money ...
Time:
16th century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.
Style:
costume drama, saga, disturbing, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fire, tragedy, catastrophe, danger, social differences, conflict, death, vengeance, woman, strength, victorian england, anarchist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
No Overview
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
queen, leopard, horse, pig, tiger, princess, biopic, self discovery, state affairs, lifestyle, master and servant, introspection ...
Time:
year 1975, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
london, england, india
Similarity:
33%
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