Movies like The Endless Trench
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The Endless Trench (2019)
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Original name: La trinchera infinita
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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 potential reprisals and the love they feel for one another will condemn them to an imprisonment that will last for more than 30 years.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, touching, sad
Plot:
dictatorship, political repression, neighbor neighbor relationship, small village, spanish civil war, secret, revenge, delusion, hiding place, assassination, torture, fear, arrest, snitch, suspense, survival, spanish history, interwar period, franco regime (francoism), ghost, civil war, pregnancy, female nudity, sex scene, fire ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 60s, year 1945, year 1943, year 1936, 20th century ...
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, andalusia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating and realistic films with plots about suspense, murder, death, betrayal, nude, politics and violence mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Endless Trench: The 13 Roses (2007), While at War (2019), Neruda (2016), The Fury of a Patient Man (2016), The Candidate (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intellectual
Plot:
spanish civil war, spanish history, moral dilemma, arrest, professor, coup d'etat, military, society, disorder, civil war, military coup, world war two ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, art film ...
Plot:
political repression, manhunt, writers, poet, police detective, escape, politician, police investigation, anti communism, class differences, exile, senate ...
Time:
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Place:
chile, south america, andes mountains, santiago chile, paris france
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70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The tentative romance between a gentle Madrid labourer and a working single mother becomes a struggle for survival when the woman’s violent boyfriend returns from prison, in the gritty, suspenseful debut feature from Spanish actor Raúl Arévalo.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Angel Barciela and the police inspector Francisco Valduque meets after several years in the funeral of Buendía engineer. Both expect to see Julia, the daughter of the deceased and one of those involved in the investigation.
Style:
non-linear, tense, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In ...
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suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex-con's attempts to live a quiet life are derailed when the daughter of the woman sheltering him is the victim of a vicious attack.
Style:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The Captain captures the final act of the Third Reich as Hitler's dream falls completely into ruins. The downfall is the seen through the eyes of a young German soldier who, amidst the chaos, decides to desert.
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
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In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants ...
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20th century, post world war two, 1940s, year 1945
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47%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Story:
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Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Story:
When a strange door appears in a troubled family's house, they will have to face their darkest secrets.
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
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Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
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Audience:
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