Movies like The Tree of Guernica

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The Tree of Guernica (1975)
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The Tree of Guernica (1975)
Original name: L'Arbre de Guernica
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Vandale leading the Republican opposition to the fascist arm of Villa Romero, one of the Republican strongholds during the Spanish Civil War. She has previously met with Goya during the bombing of Guernica and the hope of seeing him again...
Style: surreal, controversial, experimental, avant garde
Plot: surrealism, spanish civil war, art, prison, tank, village, airplane, snake, teacher, violence, civil war, motorcycle, female nudity, death, torture, fascist, battles, priest, male nudity, fascism, midget, dwarf, communism, masturbation, revolution ...
Place: spain
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and crying films with plots about death, murder, blood, female nudity, nudity, male nudity and violence mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Tree of Guernica: Long Live Death (1971), I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973), Red Cherry (1995), Land and Freedom (1995), The Deserter and the Nomads (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Long Live Death (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, experimental, controversial, mind bending ...
Plot: surrealism, spanish civil war, youth, extreme, boy, incestuous desire, nihilism, francisco franco, spanish history, aunt, erotica, cowboy ...
Time: 1930s
Place: spain, europe
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95%
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, deep, art house ...
Plot: surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, unsettling, peeping, human relationship, magic realism, incest, epilepsy, police, murder, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
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Red Cherry (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
Style: serious, touching, bleak, mesmerizing, saga ...
Plot: world war two, monastery, tattoo, orphan, military, innocence lost, life is a bitch, youth, war, society, anti war, boarding school life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: russia, china, moscow russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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44%
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The Deserter and the Nomads (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that ...
Style: apocalyptic, allegory
Plot: post apocalypse, distopia, children, surrealism, gypsy, renaissance, post apocalyptic, psycho, blood, female nudity, massacre, nuclear war ...
Time: future
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
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36%
Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style: silent
Plot: partisan, world war two, communist, mountain, civil war, communism, tragic event, church, lieutenant, mission, rock, execution ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Flanders (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the ...
Style: realistic, serious, slow cinema, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: castration, war crime, soldier, murder, rape, battles, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, male female relationship, military, death ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, middle east, flanders, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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To the Ends of the World (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Indochina, 1945. Robert, a young French soldier, witnesses the Japanese executing his family. Hungry for revenge, he enlists in the fight alongside the French soldiers, but his encounter with an Indochinese prostitute will turn his beliefs and his ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, brutal, rough, retro
Plot: unsimulated sex, prostitute, blood, death, wartime life, sole survivor, war, danger, dictatorship, dictator, survival, violent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1946
Place: indochina, vietnam
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35%
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Wild Wind (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, hanged man, nazi, river, violence, machine gun, death, train, murder, blood, traitor ...
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Eden and After (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Style: allegory, disturbing, avant garde, enigmatic, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, torture, unsettling, fetish, modernism, parallel universe, painting, desert, death, nihilism, eroticism, female nudity ...
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32%
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Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Salon Kitty (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, controversial, sensual ...
Plot: world war two, nazi exploitation, gynecological exam, lust, sex, erotica, exploitation, eroticism, female pubic hair, sexual perversion, sexual humiliation, masturbation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
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Circle of Deceit (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Style: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, female nudity, photograph, photographer, lebanese civil war, cold war, correspondents, raf, politics, adoption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: lebanon, germany, middle east, east berlin, west berlin west germany ...
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The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: civil war, espionage, protest, spy, female nudity, revolution, spanish civil war, time travel, secret mission, spanish history, idealism, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1965
Place: france, spain, paris france, europe, andalusia ...
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Salome (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his ...
Style: psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, weird
Plot: surrealism, underground, hardcore, nudity, orgy, female nudity, last supper, executioner, male pubic hair, crucifix, diamond, fire ...
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Tin Drum (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style: surreal, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
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Duration: 99 min.
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Style: controversial, disturbing, experimental, erotic, art film ...
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Time: post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
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Guns of War (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min.
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Style: epic, crying
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Duration: 107 min.
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Time: 1930s, 1940s
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27%
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 116 min.
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26%
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July 13th (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people ...
Style: crying, epic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.4
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Cross of Iron (1977)
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Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Goto, Island of Love (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Funny Dirty Little War (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
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Duration: 80 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
El Alamein - The Line of Fire (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, military, soldier, battles, friendship, danger, wartime life, military life, british army, behind enemy lines, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: middle east, egypt, africa, alexandria egypt, palermo italy ...
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25%
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