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The Last Execution (2021)
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Original name: Nahschuss
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...
Style:
crying
Plot:
male nudity, husband wife sex, iron curtain, football player, legal action, sex scene, death, cold war, death of protagonist, stasi, death sentence, nightclub, marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, male protagonist, propaganda, hotel room, marriage, wedding party, exploitation, courtroom, wedding ring, husband wife conflict, drinking, dead body ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
germany, east germany, east berlin, german democratic republic, gdr, east berlin east germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, period drama and tense films with plots about male nudity, bare chested male, pubic hair, husband wife relationship, male pubic hair, female nudity and biopic mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Last Execution: Gundermann (2018), Balloon (2018), Luther and I (2017), A Life for Football (2014), The Night a Village Vanished (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
biting, serious, realistic, witty, sexual ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
non-linear, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, nudity, writers, vegetarian, prostitute, immigrant, nudism, czech german relations, emotional abuse, father hits son, european history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico city, mexico
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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Story:
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Style:
non-linear, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 167 min.
Story:
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suspense, suspenseful, political, compassionate, captivating ...
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
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Story:
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crying, dark comedy
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Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Story:
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Style:
black and white, period drama, f word
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, historical drama ...
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germany, west germany
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Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama
Plot:
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Place:
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