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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, art house, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
spiritual journey, existentialism, character study, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, alienation, identity crisis, socially awkward, mental illness, slow burn, oppression, haunting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
orphan, world war two, police brutality, survival, justice, coming of age, social injustice, juvenile detention, realism, teenage protagonist, abuse of power, character study ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is the story about man who had a great way. His adventures and losses, his life make you to be surprised. We invite you in the middle ages - a times of darkness, of heroes, of big power and of eternity love.
Style:
epic, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
medieval, leadership, betrayal, battles, danger, heroes, legacy, power struggle, political intrigue, escapades, death, sword fight ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The ...
Style:
family saga, poignant, historical drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, children, wartime, christmas, christmas carol, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, music, tragedy, persecution, sacrifice, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1943, year 1978, year 1941 ...
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, poland, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lithuania, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A thriller about a crook who efforts to get out of the business could cost him his life. Gena is a drug runner who has grown tired of the violence and unpredictability of his life, and he decides it's time to go straight. Gena plans one last ...
Style:
crime drama, captivating, tense, crime thriller, road movie ...
Plot:
betrayal, prostitution, underground, murder, gangster, drug smuggling, murderer, escape, criminal underworld, organized crime, smuggling, russian mafia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
moscow russia, eastern europe, france, lithuania
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After inheriting an old mudbrick house in his home village in Eastern Europe, a man returns after spending his whole life in England, only to find out that inhabitants are hiding a dark secret about the pagan Slavic cult and his own past.
Style:
atmospheric, mystic, suspenseful, grim
Plot:
folklore, folk horror, identity, isolation, dark past, family secret, haunting, getting home, macabre, ritual sacrifice, inheritance, supernatural ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in ...
Style:
experimental, odd
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, renaissance, female nudity, concentration camp, nazi, shoah, women, prison, wartime life, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
Style:
ambiguous ending, art house, road movie, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
sailing, hitchhiker, swimming, drowning, rivalry, sailboat, lake, jealousy, adultery, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, taunting ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, poland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style:
thought provoking, avant garde, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy girl relationship, renaissance, adolescence, parent child relationship, youth, shoplifting, smoking, teenage boy, teenager in love, daydreamer, boys and girls ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style:
art house, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, one night stand, factory worker, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, renaissance, small town, youth, satire ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, store, genocide, nazi, fascist, politics, fascism, rescue, human nature, against humanity, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942
Place:
slovakia, israel, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.
Style:
epic
Plot:
pyramid, ancient history, ancient, antiquity, renaissance, ancient world, religion, myth, biopic, bible, time machine, peplum ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1966
Place:
egypt, eastern europe, poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Style:
road movie, dark
Plot:
revenge, world war two, renaissance, soldier, burial, forest, tree, hatchet, wounded, wartime life, night, horse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik ...
Style:
art house, black and white, surreal, philosophical, experimental ...
Plot:
medieval, folk horror, stallion, nobility, renaissance, rape, brother sister incest, knight, sexual assault, winter, kidnapping, fortress ...
Time:
middle ages, near future, year 1967, 13th century, medieval times
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia, slovakia, czech republic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, sisters, renaissance, sister, totalitarian regime, holocaust, modernism, spirituality, hound dog, picnic, freedom ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, psychedelic, gothic ...
Plot:
crematorium, world war two, insanity, murder, anti semitism, father murders son, surrealism, renaissance, death, mental disorder, arthouse horror, funeral ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1938, year 1939
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, ussr, europe, prague ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, experimental, avant garde, realistic ...
Plot:
communist, renaissance, communism, politics, exile, election, age-gap relationship, totalitarian regime, radical, revenge, adultery, hard labor ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1969, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague, central europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse ...
Style:
political, cult classic, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
communism, renaissance, spy, night, election, suspicion, totalitarian regime, modernism, family problems, promotion, couples, totalitarianism ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe, prague, russia, central europe, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily ...
Style:
costume drama, crying, period drama
Plot:
renaissance, wedding ceremony, marriage, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, train, gambler, mother daughter relationship, unhappy marriage, cousin cousin relationship, nun, illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 1900, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his ...
Plot:
renaissance, midlife crisis, professor, writers, suicide attempt, workaholic, chemistry, male female relationship, compassion, scientist, neighbor, studying ...
Place:
eastern europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, countryside, piano, magic realism, renaissance, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, comeback, life & death, village life, dealing with death ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, switzerland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament ...
Style:
sexual, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
renaissance, poet, polish history, mythology, poetry, wedding, ghost, satire, performer's life, couples, family relations, revolution ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1900, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, russia, austria, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Style:
philosophical, poetic, existential
Plot:
psychological manipulation, mental disorder, identity, unrequited love, love letter, disorder, renaissance, meaning of life, psychology, monkey, mountain climbing, physicist ...
Time:
year 1973, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style:
realistic, serious, biting, epic, crying ...
Plot:
capitalist, renaissance, revolution, friendship, cuckolded husband, nobleman, peasant, capitalism, victorian england, time machine, identity, revolt ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, berlin germany, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
Plot:
summer, renaissance, family relations, melancholy, drinking, beer, father son relationship, friend, friendship, hopes, illness, hospital ...
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Taking place in a 1982 Poland a translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Style:
retro, depressing, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
hypnotist, grandmother grandson relationship, trial, communism, loss of husband, love, existentialism, dialogue, totalitarian regime, magic realism, law, nude girl ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style:
cult classic, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, renaissance, communism, boy, communist, occupation, domineering father, death, neighbor, mission, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, year 1967
Place:
czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, nazi occupation, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, balkan, czech republic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
Style:
lighthearted, buddy comedy, slapstick, crime drama, iconic
Plot:
beach, vacation, misadventure, summer, drug traffic, smuggling, friendship, police procedural, investigation, airplane, satire, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
romania, black sea, eastern europe, europe
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