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Plot Summary:
During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Chile, Cuba
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: epic, allegory
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Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on an actual event that occurred in the southern region of Chillán in 1960, tells the story of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had relationships and her five daughters.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, road movie
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What Is to Be Done? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Dr. Allende in 1970.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Cantata de Chile (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Letters from Marusia (1975)
Plot Summary:
Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The government's solution is to utterly destroy the town rather than allow the rebellion to spread. Letters from Marusia was adapted from a novel by Patricio Manns, which in turn was based on eyewitness accounts of the 1907 massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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In the Shadow of the Sun (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
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Where Once We Walked (2011)
Plot Summary:
Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where We Once Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, factual, family saga
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Akseli and Elina (1970)
Plot Summary:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: epic, family saga, pre war
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Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Plot Summary:
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: epic
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Trust (1976)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on the facts of history about the declaration of independence of the Republic of Finland from Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, when the Russian revolution caused the fall of the Empire. On December 6, 1917 Finland declared it's independence. The people of Finland sent an omnipotent delegation to meet with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Massacre of Glencoe (1972)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags:
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Allegro Barbaro (1979)
Plot Summary:
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min
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Voto + Fusil (1971)
Plot Summary:
The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the help of the armed forces, as soon as their privileges are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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The Conquest of Chile (1971)
Plot Summary:
La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It is considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Chile, Italy, Spain, Peru
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: epic
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Sweet Country (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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The Eternal Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, touching
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Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
Plot Summary:
The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile (2014)
Plot Summary:
A true story of passion and political intrigue in early nineteenth century Chile, based on the memoirs of the intrepid travel writer, Maria Graham.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, UK
Duration: 118 min
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Zhila-byla Odna Baba (2011)
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История частной жизни одной женщины и четверых ее мужчин. Главная героиня - неграмотная крестьянка, и действие фильма начинается с ее свадьбы в 1909 году, когда девушку из нищей семьи взяли в богатую, а кончается в 1921 году Антоновским восстанием.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, bleak, epic, gloomy
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The Last Supper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, witty, disturbing, cynical
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Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, epic, serious, contemplative, stylized, family saga, saga, sentimental, bleak
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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 Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Plot Summary:
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual, family saga, saga, slow cinema, period drama
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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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Peterloo (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drama about the infamous 1819 Manchester massacre, which killed an estimated 18 protesters and injured up to 700.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough, thought provoking, political, social, costume drama, period drama, extraordinary
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Jimmy's Hall (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the 'Red Scare'.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, touching, serious, inspirational, political, factual, historical drama, period drama, political drama
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No (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Chile, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, sincere, captivating, cerebral, realistic, surreal, philosophical
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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