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Plot Summary:
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, realistic, suspense, contemplative, gloomy
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1915 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, sad, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nahapet (1977)
Plot Summary:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Invisible World (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, contemplative
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Armenia (2006)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Assignment Berlin (1982)
Plot Summary:
no overview.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Aram (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Mother (1991)
Plot Summary:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: saga
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Armenia, My Love... (2016)
Plot Summary:
The destiny of a happy Armenian family, whose life will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint the story of his shattered childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mother (1992)
Plot Summary:
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from Armenia and is adapting to his new country to the best of his ability. This tends to put him in conflict with his traditional Armenian family. Nonetheless, they are all hardworking and loving. Now, forty years later, the lead character has changed his name to Pierre Zakar, because it is easier for the French to pronounce and relate to. He has also become a very successful playwright.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Wild Flower (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, saga
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Gallipoli (2015)
Plot Summary:
As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized, period drama
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The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, disturbing, sincere, bleak, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Ararat (2002)
Plot Summary:
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, sexy, meta, existential, serious, contemplative, non-linear
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The Cut (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, factual, sexy, sad
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Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, epic, serious, gloomy, intercultural
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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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Two Hearts as One (2014)
Plot Summary:
A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, exciting, epic, serious, stylized, political, non-linear
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120 (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can not respond to to the appeal. The young children of Van want to do something.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, educational, serious
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Waiting for Heaven (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who has ignited an insurrection, is arrested in a far off state and to be executed soon. Eflatun is ordered to make a portrait of the rebel prince who's been condemned to death in a Western manner to help the authorities be certain on the identity of him. Upon the order, Eflatun sets off for an arduous journey to Anatolia. He picks up a girl named Leyla en route. Together, they find themselves in a great venture fraught with sensations.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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A City of Sadness (1989)
Plot Summary:
Soon after Japan relinquishes control of Taiwan in 1945, the Lin brothers face hardships from the changing culture. Bar owner Wen-heung (Chen Sown-yung), the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred by his experiences in the war, ends up in an insane asylum. Deaf-mute photographer Wen-ching (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), the youngest brother, decides to make a stand and fight the Kuomintang government from China that is assuming power.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: realistic, sad, saga, black and white, slow cinema, aesthetic, tense, rough, serious, captivating
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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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The Butcher of Prague (2011)
Plot Summary:
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, František Šíma, is sent to prison following a family dispute that results in the accidental death of one of his sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
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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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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation. When the Nazi occupied Hungary, in 1944, instead to leave (Italy had already surrendered to the Allies) he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing name into Jorge Perlasca. He starts working as a diplomat here. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, is removed, Perlasca immediately substitutes him, like if he was officially appointed from Spanish authorities... Written by 1felco.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: disturbing, uplifting, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, epic
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Gallipoli: End of the Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
April, 1915. First World War in Canakkale, Ottoman Empire. Two brothers leave their mountain village to fight on the front line. One is an experienced sniper fighting for Ottomans against the invasion, while his brother finds it much tougher to cope with life in the trenches. Meanwhile, landing of the occupation forces in the shores of Gallipoli has begun.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, epic, captivating, realistic, stylized, surprise ending
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The Viceroys (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
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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Miral (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, stylized, inspirational, breathtaking, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Time That Remains (2009)
Plot Summary:
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.[Synopsis from the director, courtesy of Cannes Film Festival] : "The Time That Remains" is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a family--my family--spanning from 1948, until recent times. The film is inspired by my father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a resistant fighter in 1948, and by my mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. Combined with my intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labeled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Italy, UK, United Arab Emirates, Israel
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, humorous, touching, realistic, contemplative, offbeat, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Massacre in Rome (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Saviors in the Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant Marga and her daughter refuge under false names and hide her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak