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Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 2029, the elite police squad Illang combats a terrorist group opposing reunification of the two Koreas. But another enemy may be lurking nearby.
Style: captivating, exciting, philosophical, futuristic, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dictatorship, rebellion, society, criminal, fighting the system, heroes, danger, resistance, outlaw, warrior, distopia, violent ...
Time: future
Place: korea
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Pra Frente, Brasil (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is set on mid-1970, when the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian national football team on the FIFA World Cup serves as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the ...
Style: political
Plot: dictatorship, dictator, torture, legal, reflection, violent, soccer, bare chested male, cruelty, operation condor, military dictatorship, hung upside down ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Schindler's List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, war, wartime, storytelling, concentration camp, brutality, nazism, against humanity, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1993, 90s, ancient times ...
Place: poland, germany, persia, iran, europe ...
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 8.2
 700K
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
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A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, informative ...
Plot: military dictatorship, prison, politics, dictatorship, dictator, released from prison, political prisoner, violence, biopic, rivalry, society, criminal justice ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1973
Place: south america, uruguay, latin america
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The Man Standing Next (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
Plot: assassination of president, politics, assassination, tragedy, betrayal, dictatorship, state terrorism, spy, espionage, intelligence agency, hearing, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south korea, seoul, washington d.c., paris france, east asia ...
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 8.0
 6K
Tito and Me (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Goran Markovic, known more for his dramatic work, achieved something that's eluded many great filmmakers - both smart and funny comedy. Based loosely on his own life as a kid growing up in Tito's communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s, the ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dictatorship, boy, world war two, traumatic childhood, totalitarian regime, satire, obsession, politics, dystopia, revolution ...
Time: year 1992, 50s, year 1954, 1950s
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia, eastern europe, bosnia ...
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 7.0
 3K
Stalin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Style: political, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, communism, politician, josef stalin, dictatorship, propaganda, intrigue, paranoia, stroke, european history, world war, international relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1917 ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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 7.8
 7K
Herod's Law (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
Style: realistic, political, dark comedy, biting, clever ...
Plot: politics, corruption, social commentary, political corruption, small town, satire, mayor, dictatorship, greed, leader, protest, mafia ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: latin america, mexico
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 8.8
 19K
I, Claudius (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 669 min.
TV show
Story: Tracing the lives of several Roman emperors, this is an epic of ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue set in one of history's most fascinating eras. Bearing witness to the saga is Claudius, whose stutter and limp have ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, political thriller, clever, epic ...
Plot: ancient, roman empire, ancient rome, political intrigue, ancient history, intrigue, roman emperor, antiquity, ancient world, politics, royal family, emperor ...
Time: 1st century, year 1976, 20th century, 50s, 1st century b.c. ...
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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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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 7.3
 25K
Reds (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style: epic, political, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: journalism, politics, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, communism, reporter, journalist, cold war, writers, love story, adaptation ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, year 1917, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, new york, st. petersburg russia, usa ...
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 7.0
 11K
Indochine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She ...
Style: visual, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, stylized ...
Plot: adoption, colonialism, women, vietnam war, love story, politics, dictatorship, dictator, sexual content, war, interracial relations, naval officer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1940s ...
Place: southeast asia, vietnam, indochina, france, asia ...
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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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 6.6
 560
Shores of Hope (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: friendship, ambition, relationship vs career, dishonesty, moral dilemma, investigation, danger, betrayal, snitch, dictatorship, dictator, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, german democratic republic, east germany
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 7.4
 85K
Trumbo (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Style: political, factual, talky, suspense, intense ...
Plot: communism, communist, hollywood, biopic, politics, gossip columnist, gossip, cancer, movie business, mccarthyism, screenwriter, film industry ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 70s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, kentucky, usa
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 5.1
 67
Quito 2023 (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Is the year 2023. Quito has been walled by Leonardo Ponce, a military dictator that took control of the city in the early 2010's. A group of revolutionaries led by Marcos and Santiago are on the verge of giving a coup d'état. Just hours ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: revolutionary, military, revolution, coup d'etat, dictatorship, power struggle, war, dystopia, underground, subversion
Time: future, near future
Place: south america
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 5.6
 353
Orange Honey (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: soldier, against the rules, rebelliousness, moral dilemma, rebellion, fighting the system, life turned upside down, injustice, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: spain, andalusia
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 6.9
 1K
Zuzu Angel (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: fighting the system, uncover truth, missing person, injustice, life is a bitch, society, politics, rebellion, legal, price of justice, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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 6.7
 2K
The 13 Roses (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, false accusation, social decay, life is a bitch, betrayal, idealism, society, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain
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 7.1
 4K
Kamchatka (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot: coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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Garage Olimpo (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A beautiful Argentine activist receives preferential treatment from a man supposed to torture her.
Style: political, mindfuck, thought provoking, psychological, serious ...
Plot: military dictatorship, torture, capitalism, dictatorship, kidnapping, dictator, politics, american imperialism, death penalty, coup, political intrigue, state terrorism ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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Caravan of Death (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: dictatorship, problem, lawyer, fighting the system, murder investigation, female protagonist, female lawyer, life is a bitch, investigation, attorney, history of chile
Time: 70s, year 1973, year 2000
Place: chile
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I Want To Be Alive (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Homa Haghi and her love are preparing with the Haghi family to surprise Homayoun, the father of her family on his birthday night. But when the father arrives, the whole family is surprised.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, dramatic
Plot: love, dictatorship, totalitarianism, revolution, fundamentalism, relationships, birthday, family relations, father and daughter, father, persian, censorship
Time: 80s
Place: iran, persia
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Hounded on a Carnival Monday (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: revenge, dictatorship, social relations, male female relationship, sexual relations, mother daughter relationship, family problems, social problems, life is a bitch, sexploitation, family relations, attempted seduction ...
Place: colombia
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 6.3
 537
Backdoor (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, second marriage, revenge, friendship, teenager, coup d'etat, death of father, prostitute, dictatorship, mother son relationship, gay ...
Time: 60s
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 6.8
 11K
Neruda (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot: political repression, anti communism, poet, manhunt, writers, biopic, latinx lead, politician, police detective, police investigation, class differences, senate ...
Time: year 2016, 1940s, 2010s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, andes mountains ...
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 5.7
 239
Dirty Wolves (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two sisters turns in the center of a plot implying wolfram, Nazis, Franco's prisoners and British spies.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: nazism, love interest, prisoner, nazi, spy, rebellion, jail, dictatorship, prison, sister sister relationship, third reich, owl ...
Time: 1940s
Place: galicia, spain
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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, isolation, estrangement, dictatorship, relocation, death of mother, youth, grandmother grandson relationship
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: argentina
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 6.7
 387
Lamb of God (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
Style: thought provoking, serious, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, state affairs, missing person, politics, confined, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, exile, dictatorship, daughter
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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