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Plot Summary:
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: historical drama, vintage
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Gold Fever in Lapland (1999)
Plot Summary:
After being presented with a treasure map, two men travel to the harsh northern wastelands of Lapland in the hopes of finding gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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80 Hussars (1978)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other hand, is firmly resolved that all Hungarian troops in the imperial army should be kept as far away from the trouble spot as possible, knowing that most soldiers would be loyal to Budapest rather than Vienna.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min
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In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power. That night, three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the youth's release, hides him, and then engages in doomed battles of wit with the court and with the Black Pope to free the other two. Can this priest be a father, blunt power, and live out his faith?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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Marianna Ucria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During her 20s she is instructed by a French tutor, which teaches her philosophy and all the new ideas that tour around Europe. She also has to manage, after Pietro's death, a relationship with her servant's brother (and following scandal). In her mature age she finally discovers and understands the terrible secret behind his handicap.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Portugal
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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February 15, 1839 (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three other comrades. While they await their hour of death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots find the courage to walk with dignity towards the scaffold, knowing that will they die in the name of a just causewww.tribute.ca.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political
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The Unburied Man (2004)
Plot Summary:
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
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Magnificat (1993)
Plot Summary:
Magnificat is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Luisa Sanfelice (2004)
Plot Summary:
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)
Plot Summary:
Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 60 min
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa (2010)
Plot Summary:
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Hostile Territory (2022)
Plot Summary:
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack discovers that his wife has tragically died and his children, presumed to be orphans, are heading deep into the West on a train crossing enemy lines, with the intent of being placed into new homes. Calgrove and another soldier team up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Slave Queen of Babylon (1963)
Plot Summary:
General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a beautiful young woman who's a member of Minurte's court and who has imperial ambitions. She persuades Minurte to give her a province and then uses slave labor, including Kir, to build herself a city which becomes Babylon. All this time she schemes to overthrow Minurte using shifting alliances with both Kir and General Onnos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: campy
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The King of Naples (1989)
Plot Summary:
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his queen Maria Sofia. This serio-comic drama follows the deposed king and his queen as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. Not only that, but she is frantic to have a baby and heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother. He is spending all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)
Plot Summary:
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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The Conspirators (1969)
Plot Summary:
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min
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Ashes in the Sky (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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We Believed (2010)
Plot Summary:
The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 205 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, historical drama, factual, psychological, captivating, sincere, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Lenin: The Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political, vintage
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Roots: The Gift (1988)
Plot Summary:
In December 1775, Cletus Moyer is a free black Northerner in colonial America, helping slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters captures Moyer. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already left their plantations are in danger of being captured as well. Moyer implores two slaves from a nearby plantation to take his place: Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka in his mid-twenties who was captured in what is now Gambia, and Fiddler, an elderly man who was born into slavery. Kunta is eager to help (and to escape himself), but Fiddler is unwilling, fearful of the consequences if they are caught.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Point of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama, realistic, independent film
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The Mountain of the Lord (1993)
Plot Summary:
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
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The Organizer (1963)
Plot Summary:
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, odd
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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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The Leopard (1963)
Plot Summary:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: epic, political, visual, visually appealing, period piece, cerebral, stylized, romantic, retro, philosophical
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The Supper (1992)
Plot Summary:
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, talky, cynical, biting
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That Night in Varennes (1982)
Plot Summary:
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: historical drama, road movie, costume drama, serious, realistic, surprise ending, period drama, baroque, eighties, masterpiece
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The Countess of Castiglione (2006)
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Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andrea Pieri, a patriot ready to do anything to free Italy from the foreign oppressor. Wounded during a chase, Pieri takes refuge in the castle of Virginia, which, with the approval of her husband, Count Francesco Verasis of Castiglione, takes care of him. Meanwhile, Nigra, in charge of the affairs of the Kingdom of Piedmont in Paris, discovers the relations of the countess with the subversives and sees in her the perfect tool to bring Napoleon closer to the Italian cause.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Viceroys (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, atmospheric, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, saga
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1900 (1976)
Plot Summary:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min
Plot tags: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, political, stylized