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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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Metello (1970)
Plot Summary:
Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Metello fights his way out from his condition through hard work, a determined will to resist oppression inherited from his father, but also by taking advantage of his good looks when dealing with women. Metello progressively assumes an important role in the organization of an emerging workers movement, and attempts to conciliate his risky political activities with his private life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Sicily! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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The Invisible Wall (1991)
Plot Summary:
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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I Am the Law (1977)
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The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it. Indeed, on occasion he finds it necessary to gun down a fleeing felon himself. As he closes in on the true extent of local corruption, and its connections elsewhere, he is promoted to a higher position in the fascist government so that the local mafia head can replace him as governor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, political, historical drama
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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 Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
Plot Summary:
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: jidai geki
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The Whores (1994)
Plot Summary:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ill-mannered Neapolitan, Orlanda, entertains North African visitors in her home. They do not seem to mind her constant barrage of racist comments. One of her clients falls for her and protects her from a client who stalks her. She is surprised. The male prostitute finds himself becoming violent after his client is too attentive. Liucca gets beaten in lieu of a payment. A mother struggles with her profession and homelife. Grimaldi dehumanizes clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, gay cinema
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Barbara (1997)
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Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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The Marquise of O (1976)
Plot Summary:
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spiritual, romantic, serious, realistic, period piece, period drama
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The Promised Land (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the mid-1700s, Danish King Frederik V declared that the wild heath of Jutland should be tamed, cultivated and colonized so that civilization could spread and new taxes be generated for the royal house. However, no one dared to follow the King’s decree. The heath meant certain death – a godforsaken place haunted by ravenous wolves, highwaymen and brutal, unforgiving nature. But in the late summer of 1755, a lone soldier by the name of Ludvig von Kahlen rode into the heath in a stubborn pursuit of a lifelong dream, determined to reach his goal: the heath would either bring him the wealth and honour he had long sought… or get the better of him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: historical drama, epic
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Emma Hamilton (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Garibaldi (1961)
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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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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At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)
Plot Summary:
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ indignation. Europe looks in amazement: the Russian tsar begins to work at a Dutch shipyard learning the subtleties of shipbuilding?! But his training is cut short. Peter has to return to Russia in order to brutally suppress the Streltsy rebellion organized by his sister Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, History
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Royal Exchange (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds enthusiastically to both proposals, and the ceremonies are promptly organized. The exchange of the princesses is to take place with great pomp on a small island, in the river bordering the two countries. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, scenic, thought provoking, art house
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Law of Courage (1994)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Golden Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, serious, captivating, colorful, realistic, gloomy, weird, period drama
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Marquis de Sade (1996)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In 18th century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the infamous Marquis de Sade. Imprisoned for his sordid crimes, the Marquis likewise has the beauty morally trapped... for she must help him complete his banned book of lust, or never learn the fate of her sister. It becomes a test of wills and wit, as the Marquis attempts to convert her to his deviously sexual philosophy. When the Marquis escapes his prison, she must follow him to his remote chateau of sin to finally discover her sister's fate, and to face her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Hotel Meina (2007)
Plot Summary:
How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 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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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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One Nation, One King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Un peuple et son roi crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: realistic, factual, tense, captivating, political
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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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My World (2013)
Plot Summary:
At 2 Ela lost her ability of seeing and hearing because of a severe illness. And then she became a total disappointment of her family due to her untamed behaviors. But everything changed after an unorthodox teacher stepped into their lives to educate Ela while healing himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, emotional, sincere, captivating, touching, educational, sad, serious
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The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
Plot Summary:
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the terrorist plot and reveals that his fellow conspirators are planning to kill another of the Tsar’s relatives. The young man also gives Dostoevsky the address of Alexandra, their leader. The writer must find her and convince her to call off the new assassination attempt.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
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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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Longitude (2000)
Plot Summary:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, saga, independent film, period drama