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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Bad boy novelist Johnny Murphy had it all - a best-seller, fast car and fat bank account. But Johnny soon fell from grace because Johnny, just like the greats he idolizes, is a degenerate drunk and chronic gambler. Now, with booze induced ...
Style:
crime thriller, atmospheric, tense, noir, dark ...
Plot:
organized crime, corruption, writer's block, alcoholism, underworld, anti hero, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, gambling, investigation, self destructing, urban ...
Place:
belgrade, eastern europe, serbia, budapest, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her ...
Style:
dark drama, intense, tense, melancholic, road movie ...
Plot:
prostitution, trafficking, mafia, organized crime, exploitation, loss of innocence, human trafficking, migration, desperation, survival, journey, sisterhood ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, france, chechnya
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
Style:
realistic, dark, tense, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
runaway, abuse of power, oppression, abduction, police brutality, social commentary, corruption, love, family conflict, forbidden love, kidnapping, teen romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, tense, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
dictatorship, totalitarianism, oppression, revolution, fear, surveillance, guilt, protest, atonement, revolt, anxiety, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
Style:
independent film, political thriller, tense, noir, political drama
Plot:
anti establishment, authoritarianism, rebellion, counterculture, propaganda, police chase, youth culture, urban, surveillance, activism, civil unrest, dystopia ...
Time:
near future, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.
Plot:
road trip, love triangle, character study, escapism, odyssey, satire, nostalgia, disabled character, unhappiness, dark humor, train travel, wild west ...
Time:
60s
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, middle east
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, political thriller, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oppression, political repression, resistance, female protagonist, protest, totalitarianism, conscience, moral dilemma, cold war era, secret, courage, underground movement ...
Place:
lithuania, eastern europe, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi ...
Style:
melancholic, road movie, reflective, art house, extraordinary
Plot:
immigration, lost love, exile, nostalgia, getting home, unrequited love, desperation, refugee camp, alcoholism, alienation, cold war, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
bulgaria, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of two people who, at first glance, are connected only by their name - Kosta. The first, a refugee from Krajina, is trying to survive, while other is peacefully building a career.
Style:
realistic, serious, melancholic
Plot:
identity, refugee, character study, survival, migration, urban, realism, resilience, identity crisis, post war, adaptation, integration ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tells the story of Stefan Markov - a journalist who has been through a terrible loss in his past - his beloved girlfriend has been missing for 4 years.
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, investigative journalism, missing person, secrets, complex characters, vanished man, sleuth, crime solving, investigative reporter, tragic past, troubled past, confronting the past ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tension, political, period drama
Plot:
family drama, cold war era, moral ambiguity, inheritance, political oppression, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, survival, bureaucracy, irony, family secret, black market ...
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Estonia
TV show
Story:
In 2004, shortly before Estonia's accession to NATO, the Russian intelligence service is approaching Alfred Vind, an official of the Estonian Ministry of Defense ...
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
spy, border patrol, political conflict, kgb, russian army, treason, betrayal, espionage, political intrigue, national security, spy thriller, recruitment ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The first war drama series the Ukrainian TV channel 2+2 which was filmed during a full-scale war in Ukraine. The lead characters are the emergency paramedics, who were rescuing people of their city under continuous shelling and bombing
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bombing, hopes, saving a life, rescue, evacuation, heroes, life is a bitch, ambulance, problem, social services, aerial bombardment, tragedy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Romania, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, political, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
soldier, revolution, freedom, oppression, secret police, civil unrest, conflict, protest, liberation, chaos, militia, accusation ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the ...
Style:
road movie, art house, tragicomedy, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, bear, circus, escape, loyalty, animal rights, moral dilemma, friendship, satire, rescue, poverty, dark humor ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the ...
Style:
saga, period piece, historical drama, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
russian revolution, world war one, culture, society, post war, lifestyle, social change, survival, cultural difference, male female relationship, relationships, love story ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.
Style:
captivating, realistic, melancholic, reflective, poignant
Plot:
city life, big city, winter, escapades, relationships, male female relationship, social relations, society, intimate, slice of life, self discovery, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, tense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
protest, communism, political unrest, oppression, social commentary, bittersweet, desperation, dark humor, cold war era, resilience, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe, bucharest, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
Style:
crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, mafioso, gang, criminal, outlaw gang, criminal gang, mysterious girl, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Eastern Europe, 1944. The Allies successfully bomb a dam in France, wiping out a German installation, concealing secret codes valuable for Allied decoding. A rogue band of soldiers is sent to retrieve the codes from a hidden vault in the flooded ...
Style:
tense, captivating, tension, grim, action packed ...
Plot:
world war two, military, soldier, battles, nazi, war, wartime, mission, nazism, fight, nazi occupation, struggle for survival ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To ...
Style:
humorous, social, captivating, satirical, dramatic ...
Plot:
corruption, government corruption, president, politics, parent child relationship, loneliness, mentor, love triangle, rivalry, society, dishonesty, destiny ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, exploitation, down on your luck, seamstress, prostitute, roommate, female protagonist, survival, small town, desperation, young woman, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services ...
Style:
tension, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
russian army, war, wartime, ukrainian history, conflict, military, trust, betrayal, loyalty, life is a bitch, wartime life, invasion ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country’s ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
Style:
political thriller, action thriller, suspenseful, fast paced, high tension
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tough guy, military, government, president, machismo, martial arts, cia, violence, gunfight, power struggle, conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film tells the true story of a young couple 'The Hungarian Bonnie & Clyde'.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, crime drama, tragic ending ...
Plot:
bank robbery, on the run, chases and races, fugitives, young adult, young lovers, youth culture, frustration, deception, moral ambiguity, escape, desperation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two of the most popular Serbian actors discover a script that they immediately want to work on, forgetting that creating in Serbia isn't as easy as it seems.
Style:
independent film, meta, black comedy, mockumentary
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, film industry, behind the scenes, creative process, filmmaking, compromise, social commentary, ambition, actor, casting, irreverent ...
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style:
art house, black and white, masterpiece, banned
Plot:
communism, communist, women, totalitarian regime, woman, orphan, biopic, parents, crush, male female relationship, death of father, flashback ...
Time:
1940s, year 1984, 1950s, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
boy, circus, youth, child prostitution, human trafficking, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, kidnapping, kids in trouble, hopes, dishonesty, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, berlin germany, ukraine, europe, germany
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