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 7.3
 437
The Photograph (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding ...
Plot: friendship, politics, photograph, communist, correspondence, unrequited love, anarchist, blaster, persecution, chaos, greek, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: paris france
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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story: A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Plot: revenge, justice, passport, political activist, communist, polish history, painful memories, politics, lie, university student, depression, businesswoman ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland
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Untitled Lal Jose Movie (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Against his wishes, 'Cuba' Mukundan (Sreenivasan) goes to Dubai to make good his father's alleged misappropriation of funds from the local cooperative bank. It is there that he learns the true meaning of the term 'working ...
Style: political
Plot: communist, politician, fraud, labor camp, arab, minister, lottery, nurse, politics, bank, election, malayalam
Time: year 2007
Place: dubai, cuba
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 7.6
 176
Canary Season (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min.
Story: It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the ...
Plot: totalitarianism, communist, canary, communism, army, love, torture, brutality, socialism, cruelty, mother son reunion, detention ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s
Place: bulgaria
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Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style: silent
Plot: partisan, world war two, communist, mountain, civil war, communism, tragic event, church, lieutenant, mission, rock, execution ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, bosnia
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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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The Red Horse (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the democratic party DAG, as well as the innocent inhabitants ...
Plot: partisan, exile, communist, mountain, fascism, communism, exodus, killing a horse, homecoming, martyr, gang, ship ...
Time: post world war two
Place: black sea, istanbul turkey, soviet union, macedonia
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 7.8
 381
The Ambush (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Style: black and white
Plot: partisan, world war two, black, communist, josef stalin, communism, criminal, hooker, innocent, militia, girl, death ...
Time: year 1945, post world war two
Place: serbia, balkan, ussr, former yugoslavia, soviet union
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Chinese In Paris (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
Plot: satire, communist, french resistance, invasion, occupation, uniform
Place: paris france
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 5.4
 213
The Pacifist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
Style: political
Plot: communist, fascist, journalist, student protest, communism, russian roulette, religion, fashion model, repression, murder, love, shot to death ...
Place: milan italy
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Style: funny, fast paced, black and white, talky, biting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, satire, coca cola, communism, capitalist, farce, corporate executive, race against time, voice over narration, cold war era, psychological torture ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, east berlin, east germany ...
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 7.4
 111K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place: italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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La Storia (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
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Story: Set mostly in Rome between 1940 and 1948 “La Storia” looks at fascism, World War II and Italy’s early postwar period through a female prism. Ida, a half Jewish widow with a teen-age son named Nino, is raped by a drunken German soldier and gets ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, female nudity, dog, rape, epilepsy, teacher, carabinieri, fascist, communist, judaism, fascism ...
Time: year 1941, year 1947, year 1946, year 1942, year 1944 ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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 5.6
 3K
Cuba (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Style: political, black comedy, serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: mercenary, cuban revolution, revolutionary, revolution, husband wife relationship, englishman abroad, satire, politics, infidelity, economist, 007, military ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, year 1979, 20th century, 50s
Place: cuba, caribbean, havana cuba, latin america
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Being the Ricardos (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Style: historical drama, satirical, independent film
Plot: biopic, hollywood, marriage, art, friendship, love, trailblazer, writers, comedian, post war, women, urban ...
Time: 2020s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1960
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 6.9
 7K
The East (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia, USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, controversial
Plot: military, soldier, elite, world war two, squad, crisis of conscience, moral dilemma, cruelty, suppression, independence movement, military officer, war for independence ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1946
Place: germany, indonesia
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 1K
The Chairman (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, undercover, countdown, race against time, politics, computer, spy mission, top secret, soldier, military ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: china, russia, asia, usa, hong kong ...
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Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: clergy, world war two, atheist, religion, catholic priest, church, faith, priest, unfulfilled love, self discovery, theology, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1961
Place: france, europe
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Directed by Márta Mészáros.
Style: art house
Plot: communism, woman, politics, anti communist, communist, tank, controversy, celebration, party, autobiography, traitor, revolution ...
Time: 1950s
Place: hungary, soviet union, budapest
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Man, Woman and Beast (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, experimental, controversial, weird ...
Plot: incest, wrestling, flashback, extramarital affair, female psychopath, fetish, dream, carnival, dysfunctional family, butcher, communist, billiards ...
Place: italy
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Hands Over the City (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Plot: politics, election, corruption, investigation, political corruption, bribery, dishonesty, state affairs, fighting the system, manipulation, lie, city council ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 60s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
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13 Minutes (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: nazi germany, hitler, nazi, gestapo, battered woman, bolshevik, world war two, resistance fighter, anti fascist, assassination attempt, corporal punishment, infidelity ...
Time: year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 2015, year 1945 ...
Place: germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
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Lost in Siberia (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot: gulag, prison, survival, false accusation, kgb, cold war, prisoner, violence, arrest, attempted rape, british, communist ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: iran, ussr, soviet union, siberia, russia ...
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The Terrace (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the ...
Style: satirical, captivating, non-linear, contemplative, cynical ...
Plot: television, food, restaurant, politics, screenwriter, communist, husband wife relationship, member of parliament, state affairs, unfulfillment, society, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
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The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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Child 44 (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, Russia, Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, serious, factual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, child murder, stalinism, investigation, child murder investigation, murder investigation, politics, fighting the system, betrayal, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ukraine, berlin germany
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Another Country (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, factual, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, boarding school, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, equality, youth, gay relationship, gay lead character, boys' school, homosexual love, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1983
Place: england, russia, ussr, britain, europe ...
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Berlinguer: I Love You (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young poet falls in love in sofisticated woman who hates poetry.But,poet wants to win her with poetry and:a bit of help of his mum.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot: disability, lgbt, friend, feminist, oedipus complex, blasphemy, communism, communist, poet, thirtysomething life, social relations, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, tuscany
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For a Woman (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, family problems, protecting from truth, family relations, love and romance, uncover truth, hopes, haunted by the past, parents and children, destiny, death in the family ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: france
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
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