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Plot Summary:
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Dirty Hands (1989)
Plot Summary:
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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1922 (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 135 min
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The Hunters (1977)
Plot Summary:
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding….
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, West Germany
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Trial of the Judges (1974)
Plot Summary:
A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heroic
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Stone Years (1985)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 142 min
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The Man with the Carnation (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Trust (1976)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on the facts of history about the declaration of independence of the Republic of Finland from Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, when the Russian revolution caused the fall of the Empire. On December 6, 1917 Finland declared it's independence. The people of Finland sent an omnipotent delegation to meet with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
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Allegro Barbaro (1979)
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Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Return to Aztlán (1990)
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When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Iphigenia (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, tragic
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Sweet Country (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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The Travelling Players (1975)
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This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, art film, aesthetic, thought provoking, bleak, epic, serious, captivating
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Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Plot Summary:
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: road movie, contemplative, philosophical, sincere, surreal, avant garde, visual, slow cinema, visually stunning, poetic
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Alexander the Great (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - primitive communism, anarchism, chiefdom or kingdom, personality cult - and shows the institutions of property and power in a bad light.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
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Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Greece, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, art house, metafiction, aesthetic, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, philosophical
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The Eternal Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, touching
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The Endless Trench (2019)
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Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of potential reprisals and the love they feel for one another will condemn them to an imprisonment that will last for more than 30 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, touching, sad, hispanic
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May the Lord Be with Us (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and changed the course of European history forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Germany
Duration: 76 min
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Il caso Moro (1986)
Plot Summary:
On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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While at War (2019)
Plot Summary:
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, intellectual
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, social, weird
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The 13 Roses (2007)
Plot Summary:
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, touching, emotional, political, social, hispanic, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Plot Summary:
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, philosophical, breathtaking, contemplative, art house, slow cinema, poetic
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Despair (1978)
Plot Summary:
Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, neo noir, surreal, avant garde, art house, aesthetic, psychological, serious, realistic
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St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Adults in the Room (2019)
Plot Summary:
A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: political, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational
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Kingmaker (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dreaming of changing the world, SEO Chang-dae takes part in KIM Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, SEO adopts a very aggressive propaganda campaign, and it makes KIM become the strongest candidate in the opposition party. When ambitious SEO believes that unjustified means is necessary for politics, KIM has a firm belief that it is not real politics. While their conflict deepens, the ruling party secretly contacts SEO to win the next presidential election.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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Freedomfighters (1996)
Plot Summary:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure. Written by Brian Rawnsley.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: political, social, sad, informative, epic, serious, emotional, realistic
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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
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Forbidden Dream (2019)
Plot Summary:
A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: History, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, period drama