Films like Waiting for the Barbarians

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   Oranges and Sunshine

   Film · 2010 · also drama and history

   The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...

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   The Secrets We Keep

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believ...

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   Adam Resurrected

   Film · 2008 · also drama

   After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where...

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   Disgrace

   Film · 2008 · also drama

   Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic suc...

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   The Stanford Prison Experiment

   Film · 2015 · also drama and history

   In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the p...

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   The Wind and the Lion

   Film · 1975 · also drama and history

   At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military interven...

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   Heaven & Earth

   Film · 1993 · also drama and history

   In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Mar...

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   7 Women

   Film · 1965 · also drama and history

   In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

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   Beasts of No Nation

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he f...

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    Casualties of War

    Film · 1989 · also drama and history

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

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