Movies like Peterloo
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Peterloo (2018)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A drama about the infamous 1819 Manchester massacre, which killed an estimated 18 protesters and injured up to 700.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough, thought provoking, political, based on true events
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
protest, political repression, massacre, historical event, society, dishonesty, cat, politics, monarch, radical, bureaucracy, socialist, injustice, police brutality, political activism, prime minister, investigation, rally, fighting the system, pressure, costume, political speech
Time:
1810s, 19th century, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, manchester, manchester england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and captivating films with plots about society, politics, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, dishonesty and legal mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Peterloo: Endgame (2009), Margaret (2009), Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019), Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), Suffragette (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bomb, hopes, rebellion, politics, revolution, siege, state affairs, fighting the system, leadership, unlikely partners, folk hero, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa, england, europe, cape town south africa
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95%
458
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, political, sincere ...
Plot:
leadership, prime minister, politics, head of state, female politician, british politics, life is a bitch, state affairs, downfall, girl, british history, british prime minister ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This BBC historical drama stars James Purefoy as Beau Brummell, the original sharp-dressed dandy of 18th-century London. A socialite responsible for inventing the modern suit, Brummell befriends and restyles Prince Regent of Wales.
Style:
realistic, tense, sincere, touching, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
destructive relationship, love and romance, love triangle, dishonesty, master and servant, rise and fall, royal family, fashion, royalty, love, friendship between men, british history ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, georgian era, 18th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
Style:
psychological, political, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, escapades, society, life philosophy, world politics, ambition, rivalry, disorder, political unrest, political intrigue, political activism, social experiment ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 205 min.
Story:
A BBC miniseries based loosely on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James I of England.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, political, baroque ...
Plot:
royal family, king, intrigue, execution, coronation, power, treason, betrayal, rivalry, spy, conspiracy, politics ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
england, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style:
captivating, factual, inspirational, bleak, political ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
women, feminism, feminist, fighting the system, sexism, sexual harassment, girl power, adoption, rebelliousness, prejudice, politics, protest ...
Time:
year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london, israel, ireland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
professor, mental patient, friendship, direction and purpose, shared dream, society, writers, winston churchill, academician, psychology, mental health, art ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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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, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, coal mining, fighting the system, working undercover, injustice, society, leadership, social decay, legal, rebel, sabotage, social change ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, disturbing
Plot:
catastrophe, soldier, heroes, losing-it hero, vigilantism, redemption, revolution, political unrest, politics, rivalry, state affairs, assassination ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Films like Elizabeth
879
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:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
labor union, deportation, rich and poor, social differences, working class, fighting the system, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, hopes, rebelliousness, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
england, australia, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
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:
enigmatic, surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, eccentricity, character study, estrangement, ambition, elderly, love and romance, society, couple relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1840s, 1830s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, ...
Style:
thought provoking, talky, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot:
napoleon bonaparte, french history, napoleonic wars, politics, french revolution, secret police, police, vice, battles, revolution, wartime life, royal family ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, social decay, false accusation, confined, dishonesty, idealism, society, life is a bitch, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
uncover truth, fighting the system, missing person, injustice, life is a bitch, legal, politics, society, rebellion, political unrest, political intrigue, price of justice ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, rough, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
anarchist, dictatorship, politics, legal, legal investigation, rebellion, against humanity, missing person, demonstration, rebelliousness, fighting the system, state affairs ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Place:
spain, barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
Style:
political, serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
american politics, assassination, rise to the top, media, dishonesty, politics, ambition, life is a bitch, society, human spirit, state affairs, campaign ...
Time:
1930s, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the ...
Style:
political, tense, thought provoking, factual, witty ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, politics, legal, war, court, military, murder, military life, australian, tragedy, world politics ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa, australia, england, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
african american, heat wave, blaxploitation, black history, urban setting, racism, journalism, life is a bitch, media, society, social decay, interracial relations ...
Time:
60s, year 1965
Place:
los angeles, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
414
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Election Night 1979: Margaret Thatcher is about to come into power. A young black man is held on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife. Officers Karn and Wilby, racist to the core and high on the prospect of a Conservative Party victory, try to ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
murder, racism, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, law enforcement, social decay, police brutality, interrogation, police corruption ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
witch hunt, false accusation, puritan, execution, religions or cults, society, politics, legal, courtroom drama, americana, social decay, life is a bitch ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, world trade center manhattan new york city, disaster, catastrophe, state affairs, politics, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, undercover, leadership, working undercover, incompetent official ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
factory, politics, labor union, strike, running from police, prostitution, solidarity, social change, sex, bus, fighting the system, working class ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
italy, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Culloden is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, ...
Style:
cerebral, political, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
battles, war, socialist, british army, soldier, power relations, militant, rebelliousness, society, rebellion, military, state affairs ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the ...
Style:
bleak, captivating, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
terrorism, life is a bitch, political conspiracy, head of state, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, leadership, politics, americana, hijacking, tragic event ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
usa, new york, washington d.c., manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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653
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot:
aviation, state affairs, dishonesty, hopes, heroes, politics, law enforcement, righting the wronged, legal, fighting the system, rivalry, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and fortune there. Once in London her master turned manager does ...
Style:
captivating, serious, thought provoking, realistic, existential horror ...
Plot:
shame, prostitution, humiliation, physical appearance, captivity, violence against women, rebelliousness, poverty, society, social misfits, exploitation, racism ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
africa, paris france, south africa, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
rivalry, rebellion, fighting the system, corporate crime, life is a bitch, society, legal, dishonesty, courtroom drama, religions or cults, injustice, store ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
epidemic, public health, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, society, hopes, politics, plague, terminal illness, medical profession, disease, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, china, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, rebellion, dishonesty, against humanity, downfall, society, legal, state affairs, life is a bitch, politician, human rights, dictator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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