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Plot Summary:
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Nigeria, Kenya
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, political thriller, sinister, grindhouse
Best tv shows and movies like Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981):
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Romero (1989)
Plot Summary:
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This fil chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: inspirational, christian film, realistic, tense, serious, suspense, political thriller, crying, tragic ending, independent film
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In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, political, suspense
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The Man on the Shore (1993)
Plot Summary:
Early 1960s Haiti during Duvallier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family heavily suffered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Haiti, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Stalin (1992)
Plot Summary:
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: political, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, suspense, political thriller, tension
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The President (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Glove (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steal. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, sadistic, independent film, grindhouse
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Yesterday's Promise (1994)
Plot Summary:
Three strong-willed sisters face tough choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, independent film
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Z (1969)
Plot Summary:
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intellectual, neo noir, dark
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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Plot Summary:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she works closely with Leo Jogiches. Their political activity creates some difficulty for their personal relationship... As international tensions rise, Rosa makes speeches denouncing war and militarism. She seems too radical for her fellow Socialists. She meets Karl Liebknecht. When World War I begins, Rosa and Karl are united in opposition.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, suspense, political thriller, tension, masterpiece
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Massacre Mafia Style (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terror reigns when Mimi, the son of a deported Don, along with his associate Jolly Rizzo wage a bloody war for control of the West Coast underworld, battling hordes of hard-boiled mobsters and deadly black pimps on their rise to the top!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crying, independent film, cult film
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Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Plot Summary:
A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, slasher, disturbing, bloody, suspense, scary, bleak, serious, realistic
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Evilenko (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, heartbreaking, suspense, atmospheric, surreal, art house, disturbing, scary, psychological, bleak
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Midnight Express (1978)
Plot Summary:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological, serious, tense, controversial, grim, bleak
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The Mauritanian (2021)
Plot Summary:
A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, tense, captivating, inspirational, serious, social, dramatic, disturbing, art house
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Sometimes in April (2005)
Plot Summary:
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Rwanda, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, sad, disturbing, inspirational, political, informative, bilingual
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Black Sunday (1977)
Plot Summary:
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, neo noir, psychological thriller, meta, cult classic, surprise ending
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Plot Summary:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: political, bleak, realistic, harsh, intense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, sincere, serious
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Michael Collins (1996)
Plot Summary:
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: political, brutal, harsh, intense, factual, serious, captivating, dramatic, inspirational, costume drama
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Lumumba (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, sincere, thought provoking, contemplative, biting, sexy
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Salvador (1986)
Plot Summary:
A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Mexico, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, tense, harsh, factual, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating
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The Killing Fields (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, political, heartbreaking, emotional, tense, compassionate, serious, captivating, depressing
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Downfall (2004)
Plot Summary:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 370000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh, realistic, suspense, political, atmospheric, thought provoking
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A Mighty Heart (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, factual, political, sad, captivating, inspirational, sincere, cult classic
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The Report (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: political, uplifting, psychological, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, political thriller, informative, non-linear, philosophical, interesting
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Missing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller, emotional, talky, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, poignant
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Citizen X (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, factual, serious, realistic, grim
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22 July (2018)
Plot Summary:
In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, brutal, dramatic, disturbing, novela, action thriller, thrilling, disaster movie
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Hannibal (2001)
Plot Summary:
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, clever, rough, psychological thriller, serious, intense
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Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 368000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, South Africa, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: emotional, intense, informative, rough, political, sad, depressing, inspirational, sincere, touching
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: political, factual, suspense, harsh, psychological, brutal, bloody, rough, suspenseful, serious