Movies like The Unburied Man

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The Unburied Man (2004)
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The Unburied Man (2004)
Original name: A temetetlen halott
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
Plot: torture, doctor, rat, exile, communism, rain, death sentence, revolution, hate, disease, dictatorship, war for independence, adolescence, interrogation, jail, democracy, josef stalin, husband wife relationship, grave, atrocity, stalinism, hanging, crime against humanity, execution, terror ...
Time: 20th century, year 1956, 1950s, 50s
Place: italy, budapest, hungary, romania, central europe, soviet union, ussr ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, thought provoking and political films with plots about communism, politics, revolution, torture, family relations, husband wife relationship and communist mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Unburied Man: General Nil (2009), Allegro Barbaro (1979), 80 Hussars (1978), Hungarian Rhapsody (1979), Zhena Stalina (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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General Nil (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, army general, trial, secret service, imprisonment, moral dilemma, communism, arrest, assassination, interrogation, prison, death sentence ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
Place: poland, ussr, siberia
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Directed by Márta Mészáros.
Style: art house
Plot: communism, woman, politics, anti communist, communist, tank, controversy, celebration, party, autobiography, traitor, revolution ...
Time: 1950s
Place: hungary, soviet union, budapest
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Allegro Barbaro (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. ...
Plot: politics, love, execution, murder, class struggle
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80 Hussars (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other ...
Plot: revolution, patriotism, bravery, army, desertion, political oppression, group
Time: 19th century, 1800s
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37%
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Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
Plot: male nudity, politics, murder, russian roulette, class struggle
Place: eastern europe, hungary
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Zhena Stalina (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story: A historical drama about the tragic fate of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, a woman who remained in the shadow of her husband Joseph Stalin. In 1918, 16-year-old Nadezhda married 38-year-old Joseph Stalin, a close friend of the Alliluyev family. The love of ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: josef stalin, older man younger woman relationship, stalinism, husband wife relationship, wartime, historical character, historical figure, tragic love, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love affair ...
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The Magnate (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Style: family saga
Plot: renaissance, dynasty, monarchy, nazism, female nudity, nazi, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, cheating wife, communism, sexually frustrated woman, sexually dissatisfied wife ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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Just Like at Home (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Plot: father daughter relationship, children, surrogate father, dog, female nudity, family relations, getting home, girl man relationship, girl, infatuation, female full frontal nudity
Place: hungary
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Fox: Hunter (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Plot: communism, romanian revolution, totalitarian state, friendship, trust, fear, surveillance, dictatorship, secret police
Place: romania
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Man of Iron (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as ...
Style: political, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: strike, communism, protest, union, communist, revolution, labor, identity, fictional history, chaos, renaissance, kung fu ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 70s, 60s
Place: poland, ussr, eastern europe, europe
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Milada (2017)
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 ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, touching, tense
Plot: lawyer, european history, world war two, husband wife relationship, jail, trial, politics, strong female character, sister sister relationship, courtroom, strong female lead, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s
Place: prague, central europe
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30%
The Silent Revolution (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: cold war, solidarity, teenager, high school, friendship, learning the truth, border crossing, communism, betrayal, father son relationship, twists and turns, nazi ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1956, year 1953
Place: east germany, west berlin west germany, germany, hungary, german democratic republic ...
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An Ordinary Execution (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: josef stalin, power relations, head of state, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, dictator, suffering, illness, kgb ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1952
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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Baptism of Blood (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the ...
Plot: torture, dictatorship, dictator, brazilian military dictatorship, liberation theology, catholic, catholic church, male pubic hair, male nudity, liberation, bare chested male, nudity ...
Place: brazil
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Requiem for Dominic (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in ...
Plot: politics, exile, communism, dictatorship, demonstration, revolution, romanian revolution, totalitarian state
Place: romania
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Betrayal (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Plot: romanian revolution, communism, artist, totalitarian regime, agent, family relations, death of friend, democracy, anti communist, port, police inspector, poetry ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: romania, paris france
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Monstrum (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style: retro
Plot: artist, painter, art, josef stalin, suicide, husband wife relationship, communist, european history, communism, moral dilemma, sculptor, czech history ...
Time: 1950s
Place: prague, central europe
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Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style: political
Plot: coming of age, exploitation, love letter, renaissance, boy, train, teenage boy, young boy, school, indoctrination, polish history, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Garibaldi (1961)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern ...
Style: historical drama, vintage
Plot: invasion, nationalist, war for independence, revolution, italian history, civil war, volunteer, republican
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: italy
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Plot: perestroika, totalitarian regime, josef stalin, town, stalinism, dictator
Place: ussr, soviet union, caucasus, georgia
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Bonifacio, the First President (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of Andres Bonifacio, a man who rose as a leader in the fight against the Spanish oppressors, and would gain the enmity of even those fighting for the same cause.
Plot: marxist, hanging, cannon, sword fight, freemason, murder, newspaper, election, church, raid, teacher, freedom fighter ...
Time: 19th century
Place: the philippines
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky ...
Plot: oedipus complex, protest, russian empire, political activist, socialist, publishing, forced suicide, demonstration, worker, communist, communism, murder of mother ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, siberia
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The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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25%
In the Crosswind (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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25%
The Eternal Road (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: immigrant, espionage, great depression, communism, family relations, secret police, idealism, fear, mass murder, violence, american history, getting home ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1938, year 1937
Place: soviet union, germany
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No (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Chile, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition ...
Style: political, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dictatorship, campaign, democracy, advertising, protest, oppression, fighting the system, underdog, politics, political conspiracy, rebellion, against the odds ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 2010s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile, south america
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25%
April Captains (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Style: serious, tense, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dictatorship, military coup, military, rebellion, coup d'etat, family relations, politics, state affairs, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: portugal, africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Ether (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: human experiment, experiment, military, doctor, experiment gone awry, medical experiment, scientific experiment, bare chested male, russian roulette, execution, apprentice, spying ...
Time: 20th century
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Sunset (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Set in Budapest in 1913, when the city was considered to be at the heart of Europe. 20-year-old Irisz Leiter, arrives in the Hungarian capital after spending her younger years in an orphanage, hoping to work as a milliner in the legendary hat store ...
Style: art house
Plot: world war one, women, young woman, widow, job seeking, noblewoman, attempted rape, bloodbath, orphanage, tram, train, female protagonist ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 2010s
Place: budapest, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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