National identity movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant national identity movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, touching and crying films and TV shows about / with national identity, society, husband wife relationship, nationalism, flashback, brother sister relationship, family relations, identity, forest and male nudity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in UK, Finland, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as national identity: Jinnah (1998), The Syrian Bride (2004), Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014), Two Heads Creek (2019), The Last Serb in Croatia (2019), Kamikaze (2014), Misbehaviour (2020), Australia Day (2017), Fucha (1984), The Divine Emma (1979).

List of national identity movies

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Inspection of the Crime Scene 1901 (1980)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher ...
Plot: persecution, town, national identity, polish history, confession, goose, rally, priest, protest, trial, religion, school teacher ...
Time: 1900s
Place: poland, prussia
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 7.8
 3K
Jinnah (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, Pakistan, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation from the Muslim regime, infuriating Lord ...
Style: epic, cult classic, islamic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: muslim, politics, political unrest, biopic, independence, national identity, religious fundamentalist, religions or cults, leadership, war, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1948, year 1947
Place: india, kashmir, pakistan
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The Syrian Bride (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, sentimental, islamic ...
Plot: wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, culture clash, human spirit, love and romance, nationalism, arranged marriage, reconciliation, parents and children, leaving home ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, syria, israel, palestine
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Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. ...
Plot: cruise ship, stolen identity, suicide attempt, fake identity, psychologist, lie, neighbor, identity theft, identity crisis, christmas eve, atmosphere, swedish ...
Place: stockholm sweden, finland, eastern europe, helsinki finland
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Two Heads Creek (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post- Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
Style: captivating, bleak, suspense, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: twins, cockroach, trapped, survival, secret, fish out of water, family secret, conspiracy, dysfunctional family, rescue, psychopath, villainess ...
Place: australia
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The Last Serb in Croatia (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Croatia, seven years after bankruptcy. There is a fight going on in the world - water has become more precious than oil. In order to get hold of it, the powerful are ready to start wars, conquer, destroy, and even plant a zombie-virus. Mico, a bon ...
Style: psychotronic, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot: zombie apocalypse, bare chested male, virus, survival, epidemic, conspiracy, left to die, walking dead, chaos, dystopian future, insanity, pandemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: serbia, stockholm sweden, balkan
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 6.3
 2K
Kamikaze (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a snowstorm, the flight is delayed. Staying in a hotel, the terrorist will have to live with the 332 people ...
Style: captivating, psychological, exciting, humorous, serious ...
Plot: moral dilemma, hotel, airport, danger, suicide bomber, bomb, passenger, dancing, stewardess, terrorism, newlyweds, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, russia, moscow russia
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 6.3
 10K
Misbehaviour (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Style: captivating, stylized, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: feminist, feminism, beauty pageant, society, protest, rehearsal, sexism, women's liberation, farce, against the odds, contests and competitions, woman ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1970, 20th century
Place: europe, england, los angeles, london
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 5.7
 493
Australia Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of ...
Style: multicultural, touching, sincere, suspense, steamy ...
Plot: nationalism, sociology, human trafficking, immigration, criminal underworld, racial tension, manhunt, gang, on the run, racist, society, culture ...
Time: 2010s
Place: australia, austria, china, oceania
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 6.7
 80
Fucha (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Plot: renaissance, national identity, drunkard, grave, dignity, renovation, cemetery, history teacher, lie, heroes, coffin, headstone
Place: eastern europe
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The Divine Emma (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Style: freeze frame, crying
Plot: renaissance, world war one, biopic, famous singer, persecution, dead body, photography, work abroad, czech german relations, national identity, signing a contract, mirror ...
Time: 1910s, year 1914, year 1916, year 1917, year 1915
Place: eastern europe, prague, america, central europe
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Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his ...
Style: bilingual
Plot: national identity, grandson, emigration, letter, loyalty, fishing, family conflict, island, world war two, flashback
Place: hiroshima japan, hawaii, pearl harbor
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Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, experimental
Plot: urban setting, drunkenness, money, violence, national identity, low life, cynicism, nightlife, alienation, drunk, stripper, brother sister relationship ...
Place: chile, santiago chile
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Palomita blanca (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.
Style: telenovela
Plot: family relations, poverty, social conflict, voice over narration, schoolgirl, lodger, hippie, class conflict, presidential election, love letter, class differences, mansion ...
Time: year 1970
Place: chile
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 8.2
 301
Kosmo (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
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Story: Satirical comedy that with merciless exaggeration tells the story of a fictitious Czech flight to the Moon. While the situation of our heroes in space looks pretty hopeless, back on Earth they already know something isn't entirely as it should ...
Style: dark comedy
Plot: coworker relationship, absurdism, outer space, politician, national identity, satire, space program, political satire, bureaucracy, minister, astronaut, diary ...
Place: central europe
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The Life of Aleksis Kivi (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: art, love interest, mental breakdown, class society, friendship, student, creativity, writers, money problems, university, politics, writer's life ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, 1870s, 1800s, 1860s
Place: finland
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 6.7
 637
Lost in Munich (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sir "P" a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his "account" of the past events. But can he do it, being just ...
Style: non-linear, sincere, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot: parrot, chase, journalist, interview, world war two, czech german relations, friendship, bird, talking bird, affair, irony, funeral ...
Time: year 2008, year 1938, 2000s
Place: central europe, prague
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Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: arab, farm, wedding, colonialism, arab israeli conflict, foreign legion, legion, international relations, conflict, village, bride and groom, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: palestine, israel, persia, middle east
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 7.2
 22K
Russian Ark (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.
Style: visual, art house, surreal, lyrical, epic ...
Plot: russian history, museum, revolution, painting, time travel, art, lifestyle, haunted by the past, culture clash, storytelling, art history, world history ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 18th century, year 2002, 1800s ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, siberia, eastern europe ...
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A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, architect, male nudity ...
Place: finland
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