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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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Die Kirschenkönigin (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Family, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 269 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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Our Century (2019)
Plot Summary:
The saga of the Winny family through 100 years. The action begins on the eve of World War I in 1914 and ends in modern times.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, uplifting, touching, emotional, suspense, sad, realistic, suspenseful, tear jerker
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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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The Restaurant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: family saga, captivating, light, contemplative, stylized, retro, costume drama, period piece, visually appealing, period drama
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Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984)
Plot Summary:
This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country's turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. From the aftermath of the First World War, economic hardship, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Second World War and the decades that followed, life in the village goes on and the values and aspirations of the people at its heart are wonderfully brought to life in this gripping saga of an ordinary family living through extraordinary times.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 924 min
Plot tags: epic, family saga, saga, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Clash of Futures (1918-1939) (2018)
Plot Summary:
From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, 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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Hotel Sacher (2016)
Plot Summary:
A soap-operatic mini-series about the history of Hotel Sacher in Vienna. It starts with the takeover by Anna Sacher after her husband Eduard dies at age 59. Most of the time, someone high or low in society seems to be kissing (or more) in one of the chambres séparées.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, period piece
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The Grand (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann. The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, period drama
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Six sisters (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series is about the life of six sisters of a high class Spanish family, and the difficulties of taking over the family's fabrics' business after the death of their father, in 1913.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, period drama
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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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The Invisible Line (2020)
Plot Summary:
The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, political
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Acacias 38 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Acacias 38, the address of a stately apartment building where our stories unfold, is set in 1899 and tells the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families they serve, in a single block in a distinguished neighborhood of a large Spanish city. Two worlds colliding in a universe of crossed lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, family saga, telenovela
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Charité at War (2017)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: intellectual, realistic, captivating, stylized, medical drama, period drama
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The Turncoat (2020)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by his love interest, the partisan Wanda. Together with a scattered bunch of fellow soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while his commanding officer, Willi Stehauf, issues ever more senseless and inhumane orders. Proska's encounter with a young Polish woman fighting as a partisan and his friendship with his comrade Kürschner increasingly makes him doubt his oath of allegiance. As the Red Army draws closer, Proska becomes a prisoner of war and the only way he can save himself is by defecting to the enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting, tense
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Call the Midwife (2012)
Plot Summary:
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, period piece, costume drama, suspenseful, historical drama, retro, medical drama
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Mata Hari (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Russia, Portugal, Ukraine
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, disturbing, costume drama, beautiful
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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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Backstairs at the White House (1979)
Plot Summary:
Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 540 min
Plot tags: historical drama, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, political drama
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Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2016)
Plot Summary:
The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Krupps were one of Germany's most powerful and controversial families until their downfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: captivating, historical drama
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Our Zoo (2014)
Plot Summary:
“Our Zoo” follows the story of George, who being frustrated by memories of fighting in the great war and living with his extended family, wants to bring more beauty into the world. When he comes across a camel and monkey that are about to be abandoned, he embarks on a plan to set up a zoo.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, period drama
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Hanussen (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: spiritual, sad, esoteric, intelligent, tense, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Unknown Soldier (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
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Generation War (2013)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, serious, thought provoking, anime, mind blowing, realistic, controversial, epic, period drama
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Trotsky (2017)
Plot Summary:
The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic ending, thought provoking, intellectual, surprise ending
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Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Plot Summary:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his "colleagues", top Hitler's officers Borman, Mueller, Schellenberg are beginning to suspect him. Stirlits is constantly walking on the edge between his two identities, sending information to Russia, while skillfully maintaining the appearance of loyalty to fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 830 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, semi documentary
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Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015)
Plot Summary:
A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: historical drama, tense, captivating, period piece, costume drama, period drama