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Plot Summary:
The movie is about the great historical figure Vasil Levski. It follows three different plot lines: the relationship with his mother, Gina, the relationship with his loved one, Ana, and the plans for freeing Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire. The movie starts in 1846 and follows Vasil Levski's whole life until his hanging in 1873.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Inches from the Ground (2016)
Plot Summary:
A border post in Bulgaria, 1954. The mind of little Michael is full of kaleidoscopic panoramas of naïve Socialism, Balkan Stalinism and the Cold War. His father is a strong lieutenant having his ideas of duty and lofty heroism. His mother in her dream of a Chanel perfume, mixes up family honor with the pink wings of her youth, locked up in the barracks. The happy saga of people fulfilling their duty to their country is suddenly overshadowed by the emergence of a saboteur and a series of tragic events. The dramatic comedy unfolds in self-irony and fateful tragedy. Everyone is clinging to their grotesque existence over the abyss, without realizing what is happening just inches from the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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Pawankhind (2022)
Plot Summary:
The historical rearguard last stand that took place on 13 July 1660 at a mountain pass in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande and Siddi Masud of Adilshah Sultanate, known as Battle of Pavan Khind.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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War of Letters (2022)
Plot Summary:
10th century, the most powerful state in Europe rests on a terrible secret that may threaten the very foundations of Christianity. Captured between political intrigues and warrior battles the young prince Bayan is searching for an ancient alphabet that could save his doomed love or his kingdom. A medieval mystery drama about the birth of the Cyrillic alphabet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Nobody's Perfect (2016)
Plot Summary:
A younger woman meets the man of her dreams with the perfect lifestyle and image. Once they get married, her perfect dream turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Dear Heirs (2018)
Plot Summary:
"Dear Heirs" tells the story of one big, disconnected family forced to love together under one roof in Beli Vit village in order to get their inheritance of 1.2 million euros. Children and grandchildren should live under the roof of the family patriarch for one year without leaving the village for more than 12 hours. Those events will change the characters, their desires and principles. Traditions and moderns trends meets business ideas, and the values of patriarchal family meets with the modern family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration:
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The Falcon (1981)
Plot Summary:
Banovic Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: epic
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Bird of Prey (1995)
Plot Summary:
As a boy, Dominik watched an American crime boss murder his father, a police officer fighting corruption in Sofia, Bulgaria. Years later, he attempts to avenge his father's death but is imprisoned for 15 years for attempted murder. In prison, he meets an American photo-journalist who shares his enemy and his thoughts of revenge. Released from prison, the two hatch a plot which involves the man's recently-arrived daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Trade Routes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set against an Eastern European nation's election, in a country that was the most notorious communist dictatorship, the film charts the paths of five characters; An aging CIA officer; A young attractive economic advisor; The ambitious Bulgarian Prime Minister's chief of staff; An American political consultant; and a retired member of the Bulgarian Communist State Police. These five character destinies intertwine in the weeks leading up to the elections in a fledgling democracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, political drama
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The Color of the Chameleon (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Emil Christov's über-stylish spy-movie pastiche, a charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, dark comedy, suspense
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Ave (2011)
Plot Summary:
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat
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Subhash Chandra Bose (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amarchandra lives a poor lifestyle in British India along with his mom, dad, Baba Thakur, and a sister. His dad works as a guard with the British Army, which is commandeered locally by George. When Governor Jackson and his daughter, Diana, visit the region, Amarchandra launches a protest and also leads villagers to a meeting that is being addressed by Mohandas Gandhi much to the chagrin of his father. Nevertheless, Amarchandra continues with his protests, and even humiliates Jackson. Then Jackson orders additional men and ammunition via a train from Delhi to deal with Amarchandra, who finds out and decides to sabotage and blow up the train. Little does he know that he will soon be betrayed by one of his own men, Bahadur, and not only he, but his father, as well as his sweetheart, Swarnamukhi, will all be killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
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Ignatius of Loyola (2016)
Plot Summary:
Historical biographical religious drama film based on the memoirs of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order who was also canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Philippines, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, biblical
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Karate for Life (1977)
Plot Summary:
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: fast paced
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The Chinese Connection (1972)
Plot Summary:
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, stylized, harsh, psychological, retro
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Target of Opportunity (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Bulgarian Rhapsody (2014)
Plot Summary:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, emotional, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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A Real Vermeer (2016)
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Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Princess Ka'iulani (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lush scenery and gorgeous photography highlight this bio of Princess Ka'iulani (Q'Orianka Kilcher), a 19th-century Hawaiian princess raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, period piece, historical drama, period drama
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Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé’s desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud, she became the first female psychoanalyst.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Plot Summary:
The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded. The girl is pulled out of combat and later goes to the United States with a publicity visit. Eleanor Roosevelt welcomes Lyudmila in the White House and the two women soon become close. It won't be long before Pavlichenko stands before an audience in Chicago pressing for a second front. Will her words have the capacity to change the course of war?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dramatic, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical, political
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The Octagon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, grindhouse, hood, independent film, realistic
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Iron Lord (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious, bleak, realistic
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Ip Man 2 (2010)
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Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong.Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the troubled youth of Hong Kong. His growing reputation soon brings challenges from powerful enemies, including pre-eminent Hung Gar master, Hung Quan. However, when corrupt colonial officials stage a life-or-death contest with formidable British boxer, Twister, to humiliate the Chinese people, the masters quickly forget their differences. Soon, the eyes of the nation are on the one man capable of securing a victory-Grandmaster Ip Man!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: heroic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough, captivating, action packed, epic, stylized, spiritual
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The Finest Hours (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, breathtaking, scenic, stylized, suspense, factual, suspenseful
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, emotional, realistic, factual, compassionate, touching, suspenseful, intense
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Colonia (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Luxembourg, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, harsh, political, exciting, atmospheric, tense, touching, emotional, enigmatic
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The Duchess (2008)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic, period piece, historical drama, stylized, heartbreaking, touching
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Anthropoid (2016)
Plot Summary:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: factual, clever, emotional, realistic, slasher, social, visually stunning, intense, crying, freeze frame
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Flame & Citron (2008)
Plot Summary:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, period piece, tense, atmospheric, factual, brutal, intense, suspenseful, psychological
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Red Joan (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, factual, depressing, bleak, sad, emotional, motivational, period piece