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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
45K
Original name: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?
Style:
epic, atmospheric, tense, bleak, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legends and myths, expedition, adventure, treasure hunt, gold, jungle, obsession, amazon, insanity, monk, starvation, slavery, treason, adventurer, obsessive quest, gold rush, german, lake or river, human nature, escapades, soldier, mental illness, danger, military, rivalry ...
Time:
16th century, 1500s
Place:
south america, peru, latin america, spain, andes mountains
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and harsh films with plots about adventure, escapades, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, dialogue and culture clash mostly in Drama, Adventure and History genres. Some movies like Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Fitzcarraldo (1982), El Dorado (1988), Slave Coast (1987), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), The New World (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Peru
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Fitzcarraldo, a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding, he must figure out how to finance the opera house, and ultimately decides to capitalize on South America's rubber ...
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peru, latin america, south america, brazil
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, epic, bleak ...
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, soldier, on the road, adventure, obsessive quest, exploration, river, gold, amazon, survival, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, spain, peru
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Ghana
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires ...
Style:
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treasure hunt, slave trade, rescue, imperialism, rich and poor, culture clash, chaos and mayhem, murder, adventure, injustice, escapades, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Style:
serious, epic, atmospheric, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
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adventurer, adventure, inventions and discoveries, tribe, culture clash, tragic hero, indigenous, obsessive quest, rebellion, rebelliousness, royal family, battles ...
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spain, europe, caribbean, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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chief, princess, culture clash, power of love, new world, adventurer, colonialism, captain, adventure, wilderness, native americans, romance ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
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Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts ...
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Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1820s
Place:
germany, europe, dungeon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to ...
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, exciting
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adventurer, treasure hunt, escapades, royal family, adventure, intrigue, obsessive quest, ocean or sea, rebelliousness, heroic mission, heroes, betrayal ...
Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Style:
ambiguous ending, absurd, meditative, breathtaking, melancholic ...
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jungle, explorer, journey, tribe, snake, colonel, river, expedition, amazon, travel, sacrifice, destiny ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 1954, year 1916, 20th century ...
Place:
south america, brazil, bolivia, ireland, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Style:
bleak, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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survival, ocean, ocean or sea, adventure, expedition, adventurer, escapades, against the odds, storm, human spirit, ambition, survivor ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
africa, brazil, cairo egypt, england, egypt
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
desert, adventure, horse, war, battles, muslim, soldier, british colonial, arab, camel, british empire, leadership ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, ottoman empire, jerusalem, saudi arabia, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, gory, adventure, escapades, adventurer, amazon, bounty hunter, dangerous animal, animal life, chases and races, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style:
atmospheric, epic, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
monk, social misfits, artist, christianity, prodigy, religions or cults, human spirit, monastery, painter, power, torture, rape ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, 1400s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
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russia, siberia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 360 min.
Story:
The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money ...
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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