Historical Drama movies

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Realistic Tense Dry Clinical Intense

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Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

Themes

Media scrutiny, Leadership under pressure, Political scandal, Political ambition vs personal cost, Private life vs public life, Public perception and accountability

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Realistic Tense Raw Claustrophobic Bleak

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Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Themes

Survival under oppression, Duty under risk, Memory against erasure, Evidence through photography, Witness to atrocities

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Realistic Deliberate Clinical Relentless Minimalist

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A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

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Risk management under pressure, Grief-driven perseverance, Duty over personal life, Professional loyalty and sacrifice, Obsession with the mission, Public scrutiny vs private life

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Restrained

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German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

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Abuse of power, State censorship of art, Fugitive romance under regimes, Artistic voice under repression, Familial legacy and trauma, Resilience through migration

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Realistic Claustrophobic Deliberate Relentless Measured

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Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

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Resourcefulness under constraint, State coercion and control, Coordinated risk taking, Escape under surveillance, Fear and paranoia, Interfamily solidarity under pressure

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Tense Dynamic Intimate Raw Brutal

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In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

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Trauma and resilience, Cross-cultural alliance, Colonial violence, Frontier brutality and survival, Gendered oppression

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Realistic Tense Deliberate Stylish Measured

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After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

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Class inequality, Social climbing, Creative labor, Abusive marriage, Gendered power, Artistic autonomy, Exploitation in relationships

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Procedural

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Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.

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Isolation and confinement, Political imprisonment, Psychological torment, Strategic deception by authorities, Bureaucratic abuse, Family pressure as leverage

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Realistic Dry Deliberate Stylish Sun-drenched

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Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

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Loyalty under pressure, Betrayal and deception, Wealth and violence, Power dynamics and alliance, Frontier survival ethics

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Realistic Tense Bleak Restrained Deliberate

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Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

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Family loyalty under pressure, Coming of age, Jew persecution, Interracial romance, State sanctioned racism, Displacement and motherhood

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