The Rules of the Game (1939), The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Godzilla (1954), A Canterbury Tale (1944), Vizontele (2001), Lies My Father Told Me (1975), Female (1933), A Merry War (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Historical Context movies.
Storyline: French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
Plot Keywords: french film, classic film, satirical comedy, high society, social critique, ensemble cast, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Plot Keywords: monster, sci-fi, disaster, nuclear fear, classic, black and white, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Plot Keywords: english countryside, mystery, classic film, black and white, patriotism, cultural heritage, historical context ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The residents of a Turkish village have never seen TV. That changes when a transmitter is installed and the mayor, Nazmi (Altan Erkekli), gets a set. Everyone is curious, but because the transmission is bad they lose interest. A theater owner, Latif (Cezmi Baskin), spreads rumors about the dangers of TV, hoping to keep people interested in seeing his overplayed movies. Nazmi and the town eccentric, Deli Emin (Yilmaz Erdogan), search for a better signal to win everyone over to their side.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, nostalgia, small-town life, social change, humor, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David (Jeffrey Lynas) is a young Jewish boy growing up in Montreal in the 1920s. His father, Harry (Len Birman), a self-consumed inventor who yearns for assimilation and acceptance, is not religious. His loving grandfather Zaida (Yossi Yadin) is devout, with his heart still back on the old continent. Every Sunday, as David and Zaida collect scrap metal in a horse and carriage, grandfather preaches Judaism to grandson. David must come to his own conclusions on his Jewish identity and faith.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, jewish culture, childhood, father-son relationship, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An auto-company president (Ruth Chatterton) finds her right-hand man (George Brent) by process of elimination.
Plot Keywords: drama, female, classic, black and white, american film, early cinema, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When successful advertiser Gordon Comstock (Richard E. Grant) abruptly walks away from his career to pursue his dream of being a poet, his path is much more difficult than expected. At first encouraged by a prior publishing of his work, Comstock has trouble finding work, and soon financial problems begin to pile up. Also frustrating is that his former co-worker and girlfriend, Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter), seems uninterested in sex, although she does stand by him despite his struggles.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, literary adaptation, satire, black comedy, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In turn-of-the-century China, a martial-arts student declares war against the rival fighters who murdered his mentor.
Plot Keywords: action, revenge, classic, martial arts, nationalism, colonialism, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1968 a young Parisian (Louis Garrel) embraces revolutionary ideals and begins a romance with an art student (Clotilde Hesme).
Plot Keywords: french cinema, black and white film, art film, paris, youth culture, love story, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.—Doug Shafer <dsshafer@uncc.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, french film, classic, child's perspective, tragedy, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is about the introduction of television to a small village in southeast Anatolia in 1974. Employing a tragicomic language, it tells of the efforts of Emin who is the village idiot and Nazmi who is the mayor of the village. Emin and Nazmi attempt to start the broadcasting of television in their village and face various difficulties in this process.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, nostalgia, small town life, television, family, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. Among those they are currently observing are: the cast and crew of a movie - a detective story set in WWII Nazi Germany - which include a sensitive and perceptive Peter Falk; an elderly man named Homer looking for eternal peace; and the troupe of a financially failing circus, which has closed early for the season because of those financial problems. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realization that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely ...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, romance, berlin, black and white, poetic, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, psychological analysis, fascism, moral dilemma, identity crisis, betrayal, power ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, social issues, gun violence, american culture, politics, media influence, controversial ...
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