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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, suspense, sad, cult classic, ambiguous ending, action drama ...
Plot:
desert, colonialism, imperialism, prisoners of war, interrogation, forbidden love, torture, danger, life is a bitch, couples, isolation, love affair, society, self sacrifice, disorder, social decay, artifact, injustice, humiliation, colonel, silver, sandstorm, public humiliation, lieutenant, cruelty ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
italy, mongolia, austria, east asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and period drama films with plots about society, life is a bitch, politics, costume, state affairs, love and romance and couples mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Waiting for the Barbarians: Jamestown (2017), The Brave (1997), Oliver Twist (2007), Silence (2016), Mayerling (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
Style:
suspense, costume drama, disturbing, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
colony, colonial america, settler, love affair, working class family, society, intrigue, rivals, love triangle, conspiracy, romantic triangle, life ...
Time:
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, injustice, misfit, social decay, gang, society, unemployment, alcohol abuse, male female relationship, self sacrifice, violence ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, orphan, child's point of view, child abuse, street kid, friendship, social decay, danger, society, life is a bitch, youth, injustice ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy, Mexico, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, visually stunning, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missionary, religion, christianity, religious persecution, culture clash, crisis of faith, christian, torture, faith, doubt, martyr, clergy ...
Time:
17th century, year 2016, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
japan, portugal, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, politics, revolution, royalty, hopes, state affairs, fall in love, society, rebelliousness, illicit love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, austria, italy, venice, europe ...
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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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
witch hunt, female nudity, execution, religions or cults, society, legal, politics, courtroom drama, social decay, state affairs, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
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32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, saga ...
Plot:
family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, revolution, dishonesty, society, family life, palace intrigue, victorian england, power struggle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
medieval, friendship, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, family relations, couples, relationship vs career, asian history, unrequited love, girlfriend, social problems, tradition ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, year 2011
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style:
epic, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style:
talky, suspense, costume drama, gothic, period piece ...
Plot:
witch hunt, witch, salem witch trial, curse, courtroom drama, colonial america, politics, spell, twists and turns, vengeance, court, manipulation ...
Time:
17th century, 90s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, north america, new england ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, road movie, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
french revolution, king of france, revolution, teenage prostitute, older man young girl relationship, female nudity, writers, father daughter incest, libertine, older man younger woman relationship, interracial romance, marie antoinette ...
Time:
year 1982, 18th century, georgian era, 1790s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, world war one, turkish history, family relations, wartime life, life turned upside down, siblings relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, deportation, great war ...
Time:
year 1915, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire, turkey, middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at ...
Style:
captivating, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
slavery, half sister, imperialism, plantation, slave auction, first love, marriage, rebelliousness, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
latin america, caribbean
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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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
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27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, poverty, manipulation, ambition, coitus, extramarital affair, marriage, rise to the top, journalist, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
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:
captivating, thought provoking, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
josef stalin, dictator, power relations, moral dilemma, head of state, doctors and patients, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, illness, suffering, kgb ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, action adventure ...
Plot:
medieval, tudors, revolution, injustice, folk hero, murder, loss of wife, rebelliousness, vengeance, renaissance, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times, future, year 2013, 2010s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, forbidden love, revenge, social differences, passion, tragic love, master and servant, love story, childhood sweetheart, betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 1992, regency period ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
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25%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
samurai, japanese history, sword fight, tragic hero, human spirit, life is a bitch, political unrest, duel, emperor, martial arts, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Italy, Greece, Israel, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, realistic, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
politics, military, rebellion, friendship, battles, state affairs, rebelliousness, rivalry, danger, wartime life, political unrest, conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
israel, palestine, greece, middle east, holy land ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
forbidden love, secret relationship, fall in love, convent, against the rules, priest, obsession, youth, society, isolation, rebellion, sexual awakening ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife and dog, and a ...
Style:
thought provoking, tense, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, hopes, power relations, generosity, passionate love, rags to riches, victorian england, napoleonic era ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
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24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, costume drama, crying ...
Plot:
writers, forbidden love, poet, extramarital affair, adultery, victorian england, historical event, art, napoleonic wars, obsession, politics, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, england, rome italy
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23%
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:
costume drama, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
massacre, protest, political repression, monarch, historical event, society, dishonesty, democracy, political activism, police brutality, injustice, cat ...
Time:
1810s, 19th century, 1800s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, manchester
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, teacher, poverty, sibling rivalry, victorian england, working class, couples, family relations, power relations, opposites attract, society, love and romance ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 90s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, spiritual, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
tokugawa shogunate, samurai, christianity, samurai sword, nativity, edo period, mental disorder, catholic, time machine, spirit, religious persecution, danger ...
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, rough, touching, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, medieval, plague, young lovers, illness, love affair, love and romance, countryside, unrequited love, death, love ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century, medieval times
Place:
italy, europe, florence
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France, New Caledonia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, military, french colonialism, hostage, political unrest, culture clash, injustice, disorder, life is a bitch, confined, danger, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
seattle
Similarity:
22%
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