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Plot Summary:
A filmed stage performance of the 1993 London revival. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall) directed this new production for the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. It supposedly only aired on television one time, though the theatrical production ran for about three and a half months.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
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Mojo (1997)
Plot Summary:
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: period piece, independent film
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Baal (1982)
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1982 BBC production of Bertholt Brecht's play Baal, starring and with music by David Bowie. Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at Munich University, in response to the expressionist drama The Loner (Der Einsame) by the soon-to-become-Nazi dramatist Hanns Johst. The play is written in a form of heightened prose and includes four songs and an introductory choral hymn ("Hymn of Baal the Great"), set to melodies composed by Brecht himself. Brecht wrote it prior to developing the dramaturgical techniques of epic theatre that characterize his later work, although he did re-work the play in 1926.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min
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The Color Purple (2023)
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An adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple, based on the acclaimed novel and its film adaptation.
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Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
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Nelly, the Spy (1981)
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Berlin, 1936. A Greek student, Nelly, abandons her studies and with the assistance of Jewish Vili Foster makes her debut as a cabaret singer. Soon becomes famous and reputation attracts the attention of a colonel of the SS, the Chenrich, who besieges closely. With the declaration of war, Nelly and Ville come to Greece, and with the occupation of the country by the Germans they pass to the Resistance.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Christmas Oratorio (1996)
Plot Summary:
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: weird
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The Letter (1982)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: eighties
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The Last Letter (2002)
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Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Liten Ida (1981)
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Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 78 min
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The Snow Goose (1971)
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Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, period drama, tearjerker
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Tosca (2001)
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Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexy, sexual
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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
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When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
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Accounts (1983)
Plot Summary:
The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
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The Berlin Affair (1985)
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In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sensual, queer cinema
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Flight North (1986)
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Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Finland
Duration: 117 min
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Fall of the Eagles (1989)
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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Lost in the Stars (1974)
Plot Summary:
Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Carmen in 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets Carmen is packed with some of the best-loved and memorable music in all of opera. In this characteristically vivid and vibrant stage production by Francesca Zambello, beautifully filmed in 3D by Julian Napier, Seville is brought to life with ranks of soldiers, crowds of peasants, gypsies and bullfighters as well as a magnificent horse, a donkey and even some chickens! This spectacular RealD and Royal Opera House production features a supremely talented cast, gripping drama and Bizets energetic and passionate score. It is truly a musical event to remember!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Die letzte Schlacht (2005)
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April 1945: In the demolished and bombed-out streets of Berlin the civilian population tries to survive the last days of Nazi rule and to hide from marauding Red Army forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)
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The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Martin's journalist friend, Drechsler, calls to inform them that the Nazis plan to take over Austria soon, they concentrate on their work and their private happiness and dismiss the warnings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Arch of Triumph (1984)
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Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: noir, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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Forbidden (1984)
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In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Monte Carlo (1986)
Plot Summary:
An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Ballet Shoes (2007)
Plot Summary:
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, serious, realistic, uplifting, period drama
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Cabaret (1972)
Plot Summary:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: satirical, stylized, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, period piece, inspirational, spiritual, neo noir, entertaining
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The Ogre (1996)
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Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, UK, Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, sad, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, contemplative, erotic
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Jew-Boy Levi (1999)
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Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever. Now, Levi and Lisbeth are targets of hate in this provocative and shocking drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
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Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Mephisto (1981)
Plot Summary:
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: political, art film, mind twisting, horror musical, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, expressionism
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Reunion (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as antisemitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing