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List of liberation movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Four conservative girls sneak away on a secret trip, but what starts as fun soon turns into an unexpected adventure that tests their courage, friendship, and beliefs.
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female empowerment, self discovery, friendship, female bonding, road trip, coming of age, personal growth, young adult, empowerment, moral dilemma, peer pressure, identity crisis ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Carol and Susan are avid nudists, so when Carol's rich father takes a trip to South America, she and Susan decide to take his yacht on a cruise with an unsuspecting friend down the Atlantic coast to visit various cities and nudist camps.
Style:
lighthearted, retro, sex comedy, period piece
Plot:
nudism, yacht, female friendship, cruise, beach, liberation, road trip, escapism, nudie cutie, duck, tourism, hudson river ...
Time:
60s
Place:
florida, charleston south carolina, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dramatic, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
medieval, class struggle, village life, coming of age, journey, oppression, feudalism, poverty, social injustice, abuse of power, theft, revenge ...
Time:
medieval times
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
Style:
sex comedy, sensual, erotic, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
alter ego, transformation, female scientist, sexual awakening, nymphomania, orgy, sexploitation, entrapment, identity crisis, sexually liberated, double life, obsession ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the erotic novel by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Style:
erotic, sensual, transgressive, surreal, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian sex, sexuality, mature, voyeurism, sexual exploration, sexual awakening, taboo, sexually liberated, office, hallucination, marriage, liberation ...
Time:
1900s, 70s
Place:
bucharest
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Biopic of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who flew around the Earth, from his birth to his dream of flying since he saw combat airplanes over his small village, during the German occupation in WWII.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, emotional, dramatic, educational ...
Plot:
biopic, world war two, childhood, character study, coming of age, determination, german occupation, resilience, aviation, patriotism, survival, hunger ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their ...
Style:
tension, reflective, realistic, psychological, therapeutic ...
Plot:
couples, conflict, confrontation, secrets, communication, marriage, revelation, intimacy, counselor, jealousy, luxury, liberation ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
tradition, celebration, satire, social satire, banquet, hospitality, humour, society, provincial life, community, small town, everyday life ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Style:
entertaining, light, semi serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, world war two, tank, caper, heist, gold, bank robbery, machine gun, behind enemy lines, robbery, world war, hippie ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, america, europe, germany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, powerful
Plot:
world war two, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, military, royal air force, dam, british army, shell shock, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
netherlands, germany, holland
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Style:
humorous, exciting, freeze frame, perverse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, superhero, anti heroine, female warrior, tough girl, one woman army, revenge, female assassin, superhero team, superheroine, chase, woman fights a man ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, sicily, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This is August 1944. In France the times are uncertain and some places can be in turns liberated by the Allies and reclaimed by the Occupiers. The place is Nanteuil, a provincial town. The German troops present there are exhausted and leaderless and ...
Style:
depressing, no music
Plot:
drinking alcohol, waiting, sniper, uncertainty, negotiation, liberation, german soldier, nazi soldier, partisan, wehrmacht, american soldier, hanged man ...
Time:
year 1944
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, bleak, period piece, political drama ...
Plot:
dictatorship, liberation theology, interrogation, police brutality, political repression, dictator, prison, betrayal, religion, arrest, suicide, resistance ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
Style:
thought provoking, mockumentary, independent film, dieselpunk, semi documentary ...
Plot:
world war two, dystopia, nazi, alternate history, holocaust, resistance, german occupation, politics, fascism, war, distopia, liberation ...
Time:
year 1940, year 1945, 1910s, distant future, 1940s ...
Place:
england, europe, dunkirk, madagascar, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, existentialism, satire, theater, surrealism, actor, dark humor, showbiz, father daughter relationship, mental illness, alter ego, backstage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, america, los angeles ...
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17K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, eros, allegory, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, bourgeoisie, gay, gay interest, surrealism, seduction, sex, lgbt, mysterious stranger, visitor, parable, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany
Duration: 341 min.
TV show
Story:
Soviet spy film , based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.
Plot:
soviet spy, world war two, spy, nazism, secret agent, liberation, spy hero, intelligence, infiltration, nazi, third reich, concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, east germany, russia, ussr
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143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, sincere, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, suicide, blackmail, dysfunctional marriage, infidelity, workplace, sexual content, dark humor, temptation, adultery ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california
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Genre: War
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, historical drama, period piece, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
bangladesh liberation war, heroism, sacrifice, resistance, bravery, patriotism, courage, friendship, loss of innocence, occupation, military operation, school ...
Time:
70s
Place:
bangladesh
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Greg Morris stars as Red Salter, an American jazz musician working in Nigeria. Red is trying to make time with Leah Matanzima (Ruby Dee), who is working with a group of rebels trying to liberate the fictional nation of Fahari. Leah recruits Red to ...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspenseful, independent film, political drama ...
Plot:
mercenary, decolonization, independence, patriot, betrayal, corruption, moral ambiguity, revolution, social justice, identity crisis, espionage, underground movement ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
africa, nigeria
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1K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, island, coming of age, north sea, resilience, fishing, isolation, nature, mother son relationship, loss of innocence, wartime, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
Style:
surreal, allegory, poetic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
sex, death, teenage girl, loss of virginity, young woman, mortality, life & death, acceptance, fate, grief, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, light hearted, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Plot:
nudity, seduction, adult humor, farce, small town, satire, highway, village, liberation, scandal, female empowerment, rural setting ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
virtual reality, video game, child spy, mad scientist, secret agent, brutality, mission, rescue, technology, escapades, save the world, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 80s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, family friendly, adult ...
Plot:
good versus evil, sword and sorcery, puppetry, fantasy world, medieval, crystal, magic, race against time, beautiful scenery, creature, slavery, mutation ...
Time:
year 1982, 1900s, 90s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
Style:
exciting, political, cult classic, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
martial arts, widow, hand to hand combat, bank robber, sex scene, vigilante, on the run, farm, manhunt, showdown, arson, one against many ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
montana, california, hawaii, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The army of the Marauders, led by by King Terak and the witch Charal attack the Ewoks village. The parents and the brother of Cindel all die in this attack. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and in a forrest they meet Teek a naughty and very fast ...
Style:
saga, parody, sweet, lighthearted, cute ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
child in peril, star wars, space and aliens, space exploration, kidnapping, friendship, rescue, village, intergalactic, galaxy, space opera, evil witch ...
Time:
80s
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803K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, funny, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
princess, magic, friendship, dragon, stereotypes, love and romance, imaginary kingdom, wedding, satire, talking animal, shrek, ogre ...
Time:
middle ages, year 2001, medieval times, 16th century, 2000s
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