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Donbass (2018)
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Original name: Донбас
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the Donbas, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbas unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
Style:
satirical, tragicomedy, ironic, suspenseful, social, independent film, black humor
Plot:
beaten up, vigilantism, insecurity, military, real world, terrorist, stupidity, social criticism, proles, cold war, chaos, social satire, tank, train, wedding, civil war, invasion, snow, murder, terrorism, hospital, wartime, photograph, crisis, insurgent ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and tense films with plots about military, terrorism, murder, terrorist, society, soldier and family relations mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Donbass: Call Sign Banderas (2018), Homeward (2019), Bad Roads (2020), Frost (2017), Atlantis (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
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Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Ukraine
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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