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Plot Summary:
The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
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The Death of Socrates (2010)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 languages. One character - Socrates, changes from one scene to another from man to woman, young to old, human to animal, but delivering a monologue, broken into 23 chapters. Truth is not found in one person, in one place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Against the Storm (1984)
Plot Summary:
The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: epic
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1922 (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 135 min
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Stone Years (1985)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 142 min
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Days of 36 (1972)
Plot Summary:
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Question 7 (1961)
Plot Summary:
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison is a 1977 Italian drama directed by Lino Del Fra.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: political
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Márta Mészáros.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: art house
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Happy Day (1976)
Plot Summary:
A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: absurd, allegory
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Caravan Serai (1986)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Iphigenia (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, tragic
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The Travelling Players (1975)
Plot Summary:
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, art film, aesthetic, thought provoking, bleak, epic, serious, captivating
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Alexander the Great (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - primitive communism, anarchism, chiefdom or kingdom, personality cult - and shows the institutions of property and power in a bad light.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Mao Zedong 1949 (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, political, suspense, disturbing
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The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
Plot Summary:
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, black and white, period piece
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Diary for My Loves (1987)
Plot Summary:
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: art house
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1921 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Rembetiko (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Bad Poet (2020)
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1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to monitor aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, social, weird
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Salvador (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, political thriller, bleak
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Adults in the Room (2019)
Plot Summary:
A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: political, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational
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Kingmaker (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dreaming of changing the world, SEO Chang-dae takes part in KIM Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, SEO adopts a very aggressive propaganda campaign, and it makes KIM become the strongest candidate in the opposition party. When ambitious SEO believes that unjustified means is necessary for politics, KIM has a firm belief that it is not real politics. While their conflict deepens, the ruling party secretly contacts SEO to win the next presidential election.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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El Greco (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, stylized, captivating, disgusting, epic, realistic, non-linear, light, period piece
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Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Plot Summary:
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, political, captivating, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, factual, political drama
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The Special Relationship (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister standing confidently in the spotlight of centre stage. It is a story about relationships, between two powerful men (Blair and Bill Clinton), two powerful couples, and husbands and wives.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, intense, tricky, sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, political thriller, serious, independent film
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Gandhi (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 238000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA, South Africa
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: epic, spiritual, inspirational, political, uplifting, factual, motivational, touching, compassionate, emotional
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black and white, political, tense, melancholic, factual, period piece, disturbing, dramatic, sincere, clever
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The Last Emperor (1987)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: visually stunning, epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing, period piece, emotional, historical drama, historically accurate, erotic