Best tv shows like Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation
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Plot Summary:
The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, misfortune, loss, art, politics, history with important historic events of the decennium in the background.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Austria, Australia
Duration: 1532 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, semi autobiographical
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Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
Plot Summary:
The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). Every episode focuses on a different character from the group, although the main storyline and character, the young composer Hermann, continues. The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, misfortune, loss, art, politics, history with important historic events of the decennium in the background. It was the most costly and ambitious drama production in German television, although very cinematographic. Believed to be partly autobiographic.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Austria, Denmark, Australia
Duration: 532 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, psychedelic, avant garde
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October 1970 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 480 min
Plot tags:
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Bryggeren (1996)
Plot Summary:
The development of Carlsberg Beer, the Carlsberg brewery and the mishaps between father and son, are the main story. But also the social life in Denmark in this time period, both for the rich and poor are explored.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: family saga, period piece
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Manure and Gillyflowers (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story about the life of Maximiliane Irene von Quindt based on a classic novel by Christine Bruckner.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: family saga
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Bauhaus - A New Era (2019)
Plot Summary:
1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal threatening the very existence of the Bauhaus; the school of art that would go on to shape the 20th century like no other….
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental
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How Soon Is Now? (2007)
Plot Summary:
How Soon Is Now? is a 2007 Swedish drama television serial directed by Mikael Marcimain. The narrative portrays four people who grow up Gothenburg between 1966 and 1976. The serial was produced for Sveriges Television, from a screenplay by Peter Birro.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags:
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The Weissensee Saga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, poignant, compassionate, romantic, atmospheric, touching, soap opera
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Ku'damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ku’damm 56 is a German television trilogy about the 50s youth generation in the period between the end of World War II and the German Wirtschaftswunder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, family saga, saga, period drama
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Activists (2019)
Plot Summary:
Activists follows the years from 1899 to 1906 when Finland as an independent nation started to form. At the center stage are young restless souls who operate against the backdrop of the phenomena of the time: deep social divisions, political intrigue, fierce proclamations and people’s movements that get out of control. Activists portrays what happens when people lose faith in society’s capability to deal with conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags:
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Hotel Adlon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A three-part German mini-series about the luxury hotel in Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: family saga, suspense, suspenseful
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Radetzky March (1994)
Plot Summary:
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court. During an audience, the Emperor, displaying a certain degree of resignation, attempts to convince him that myths are both justifiable and necessary. Joseph, however, discovers "that it was nothing else but craftiness that assured the existence of.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 255 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Edo Porn (1981)
Plot Summary:
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: manga, jidai geki, erotic
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The Silent Revolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have the idea of holding a minute’s silence in class for the victims of the Hungarian struggle for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, political, social, crying, banned
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Wagner (1983)
Plot Summary:
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: historical drama, sentimental, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama
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Against the Wind (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mary Mulvane, an 18 year old Irish girl, is transported to New South Wales for seven years for doing little else than protecting her own property. She must endure the horror of transport to Australia, and years of anxiety as a convict. Mary, her friends and her family fight out their battle against a lively historical backdrop - Irelands 1798 Rebellion. Australia's Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804 and the 1808 Rum Rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004)
Plot Summary:
Heimat 3 is the third cycle of Edgar Reitz's monumental Heimat series, which premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The third Heimat completes the trilogy and brings together particularly the settings of Heimat 1. It follows the new generation of the Simon family, in a period spanning from 1989 to 2000. Germany changed dramatically in this period, and Reitz cleverly reflects the historical events through the characters’ lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 689 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, epic, contemplative
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Godunov (2018)
Plot Summary:
The TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
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Line of Separation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Spring 1945, just before Germany's zero hour. In Tannbach, a fanatical band of Nazi soldiers stages one last murderous attack on their fellow citizens before the arrival of the Americans, who finally end the war. It is an uneasy peace, however, that collapses when the Russian troops arrive. Both superpowers claim Tannbach for themselves in this miniature version of the dawn of the Cold War.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing, period piece
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Rag Nymph (1997)
Plot Summary:
Seperated from her prostitute mother as the woman flees on foot down the filthy mid-19th century streets of Newcastle from the police, ten year old Millie is taken under the wing of rag lady Aggie Winkovski and her crippled helper, Ben. Young Millie is a very well-brought up little girl, which Aggie questions and finds out that her mother had been a ladies maid before being forced into prostitution. Aggie ends up becoming Millie's guardian, protecting her from the local pimp, Boswell, who wants to have pretty Millie as part of his business, and we see Millie grow up to a happy, well educated young woman on Aggie's sparse finances; but is she still safe from the hands of Boswell and his customers?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
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Maximilian (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1477 Charles the Bold dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule without a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 275 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, period piece, historical drama
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The Bad Poet (2020)
Plot Summary:
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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The Path to 9/11 (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Path to 9/11 was a two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC television from September 10 – 11, 2006, and also in other countries. The film dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, realistic
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The Looming Tower (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 492 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, political, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, interesting
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Cambridge Spies (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense, political, political thriller, period piece, period drama
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Our wonderful years (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, period piece
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Invisible Heroes (2019)
Plot Summary:
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland, Chile
Duration: 285 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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The Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: factual, serious, realistic, exciting, historical drama, period piece, interesting
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Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, erotic, heartfelt
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A Very British Scandal (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sex, secrets and suspicion - the true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, costume drama, period drama
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Leonardo (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 409 min
Plot tags: costume drama, sexy, historical drama, period drama