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Plot Summary:
Young director Honza David (Krystof Hádek) films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva (Vica Kerekes) - the love of his life - he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk (Johannes Zeiler). He knows Eva very well - but the Czech Secret Service even better.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Baptism of Blood (2006)
Plot Summary:
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Athena: Goddess of War (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sometime in the near future, the Korean peninsula attempts to reunify. The South Korean government, which needs enormous funds for the unification to succeed, develops a landmark new technology called the TWR. The TWR is a high speed nuclear reactor and other countries want the technology. To prevent terror in the aftermath of the TWR breakthrough, the government establishes a new organization named NTS (National Anti-Terror Service). Jung-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung) is transferred to the NTS group from the NIS. He's excited about the transfer and hopes to live the life of a real agent, but then discovers his main responsibility is to watch North Korean defectors.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating
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Little Rose (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy, intellectual, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Kamouraska (1973)
Plot Summary:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Snow White (2005)
Plot Summary:
The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Bungalow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A German soldier who goes AWOL, returns home to more problems than before he left.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, complex
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Personal Search (1973)
Plot Summary:
Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Gang of Oss (2011)
Plot Summary:
Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 30ties of the 20th century. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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Saturday Fiction (2019)
Plot Summary:
An actress working undercover for the Allies in 1941 Shanghai discovers the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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The Endless Trench (2019)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Capri-Revolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, with Italy about to enter World War I, a commune of young artists from Northern Europe establishes itself on the rural island of Capri, a safe haven for dissidents and nonconformists from all over the world, like Russian exiles led by Maxim Gorky, preparing to an upcoming revolution. Here, local girl Lucia meets Seybu, the charming leader of the commune, and Carlo, a young doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Falling Star (2014)
Plot Summary:
This colourful feature debut from experienced producer Luis Miñarro offers an almost hallucinatory look at the world of Amadeo of Savoy, who was king of an ungovernable Spain for two years around 1870. This intriguing episode is transformed into a plea for beauty, creativity and joy. The film functions as a metaphor for contemporary Spain and its ongoing state of crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating
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Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)
Plot Summary:
The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882 in Mayerling. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the full story may never be known. This story has been filmed several times, in French in 1935 and in English in 1968. Hungarian director Miklos Jancso recreates those events for his own purposes, continuing his favored theme of the rejection of paternal authority. In the film, which has very little dialog, Rudolf is a good-natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He refuses to leave his country idyll even though he has been ordered to by the Emperor, his father. Despite the fact that for a large part of the film, attractive young people go about unclothed and engaging in erotic encounters, the mood is one of melancholy rather than prurience.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, manga, eros, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Stealing Heaven (1988)
Plot Summary:
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, erotic drama, period drama
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Lucky Star (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. A baby not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident is born. Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: manga, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Yosi, The Regretful Spy (2022)
Plot Summary:
An Argentinean intelligence agent infiltrates the Jewish community to gather information that is then allegedly used to perpetrate two of the worst terrorist attacks in Latin American history, leaving over 100 dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 367 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, non-linear
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Di Di Hollywood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bar worker Diana Diaz (Elsa Pataky) leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for fame.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, cynical, sexy, serious, sexual, soap opera
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The Molly Maguires (1970)
Plot Summary:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, captivating, detective, period drama
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?nos (2017)
Plot Summary:
Creation of the Slovak republic in 1993 and first years of its existence are marked with mafia connected to the highest places of the new government. True story about the hijacking of the son of the first president of the Slovak republic.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Petersen (1974)
Plot Summary:
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
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An Ordinary Execution (2010)
Plot Summary:
During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch have spread and one night she is taken away, not to the infamous Lubyanka prison, but to the Kremlin to attend the ailing Comrade Stalin himself. Uncle Joe (André Dussollier), an old man racked with pain but still as watchful and deadly as a snake.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, tense, sincere, bleak, contemplative, adaptation directed by original author
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Operation Sunflower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Plot Summary:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political, eighties
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Operation Silver A (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, crying
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Hanussen (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: spiritual, sad, esoteric, intelligent, tense, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Tobacconist (2018)
Plot Summary:
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, realistic, atmospheric
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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003)
Plot Summary:
On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washington is remembered as America's founding father, Arnold as America's most notorious traitor. Benedict Arnold rose from humble origins to become the most respected and feared of America's generals. He won brilliant military victories against the English colonists and was Washington's favorite soldier. But two conflicting forces battled inside Arnold's heart; a deep concern for his country and his passionate love for an enchanting and manipulative English woman, Peggy Shippen. Blinded by desire, Arnold defected to the English army, orchestrating an attempt to assassinate his own mentor, George Washington.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. Drama with digitally remastered original footage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting, sincere
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller, emotional