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The Damned (1969)
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The Damned (1969)
Original name: La caduta degli dei
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 157 min.
Story: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German industrial firm. Through such characters as a German Baron, a child molester, a Nazi Storm Trooper, an innocent man framed for murder, and a Captain in the German SS, "Damned" thus shows how so called "German Upper Class Nobility" first resented Adolf Hitler, then accepted him, and at last embraced him.
Style: disturbing, controversial, erotic, retro, political, sad, art house, neorealism, dread, insightful ...
Plot: decadence, oedipus complex, pedophile, mother son incest, incest, pedophilia, suicide, hide and seek, lgbt, fascism, party, male nudity, national socialism, nazi, wealthy family, politics, gay, drug addiction, family relations, murder, poison, child suicide, world war two, erotica, world war ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, pre world war two, 30s, 40s
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
Keyword: german, take over, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and captivating films with plots about death, life is a bitch, nazi, world war two, husband wife relationship, war and family relations mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Damned: 13 Minutes (2015), Salon Kitty (1976), The Tin Drum (1979), All My Loved Ones (1999), David (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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13 Minutes (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: nazi germany, hitler, nazi, gestapo, battered woman, bolshevik, world war two, resistance fighter, anti fascist, assassination attempt, corporal punishment, infidelity ...
Time: year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 2015, year 1945 ...
Place: germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
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Salon Kitty (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, controversial, sensual ...
Plot: world war two, nazi exploitation, gynecological exam, lust, sex, erotica, exploitation, eroticism, female pubic hair, sexual perversion, sexual humiliation, masturbation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
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The Tin Drum (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style: surreal, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, coming of age, nazi, circus, boy, wartime life, magic realism, life is a bitch, political unrest, beach, against humanity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1979 ...
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
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100%
All My Loved Ones (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, society, life turned upside down, election, youth, judaism, circus, starvation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
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100%
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, retro ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, death, family relations, wartime life, military, life is a bitch, society, politics, state affairs, holocaust, heroic mission ...
Time: year 1939, year 1938, 1930s, 1940s
Place: argentina, france, paris france, latin america, europe ...
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27%
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
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27%
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David (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, rough ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, chess, boy, family relations, rabbi, survival, anti semitism, hitler youth, against humanity, youth ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, black sea, vienna, new york ...
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26%
The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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25%
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Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, nazi, gestapo, hitler, combat, world war, concentration camp, ss, third reich, nazism, cabaret, wartime life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: germany, europe
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25%
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Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, suicide, nazi, war, holocaust, fascism, third reich, national socialism, nazi germany, dictatorship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 2004, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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24%
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Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi, writers, politics, moral dilemma, state affairs, wartime life, political unrest, society, nazi germany, third reich, holocaust, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, paris france, berlin germany
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24%
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Europa Europa (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style: political, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nazi, holocaust, hitler youth, circumcision, war, coming of age, genocide, childhood, survival, wartime, judaism, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
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24%
The Aryan Couple (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, survival, genocide, anti semitism, undercover, hidden identity, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, forbidden love, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
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24%
The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: civil war, espionage, protest, spy, female nudity, revolution, spanish civil war, time travel, secret mission, spanish history, idealism, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1965
Place: france, spain, paris france, europe, andalusia ...
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Circle of Deceit (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Style: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, female nudity, photograph, photographer, lebanese civil war, cold war, correspondents, raf, politics, adoption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: lebanon, germany, middle east, east berlin, west berlin west germany ...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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23%
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Cross of Iron (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style: political, cult classic, brutal, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, eastern front, anti war, war, nazi, soldier, wehrmacht, military, russian soldier, survival, world war, war atrocity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1943
Place: germany, bolivia, france, siberia, russia ...
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22%
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, genocide, wartime life, world war, rape, hopes, concentration camp, deportation, moral dilemma, war, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany, hungary, budapest
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22%
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Coup de grâce (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: love triangle, soldier, betrayal, evacuation, tragic love, tragic hero, world war one, wartime life, political unrest, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 1920s, post world war one
Place: latvia, europe, baltics, lithuania, prussia ...
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Breakthrough (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, world war, nazi, military, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, ss, holocaust, freedom, revolutionary war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, year 1944, 20th century
Place: normandy, france, paris france
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22%
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, french resistance, occupation, collaborator, children in wartime, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, nazi, wartime life, resistance movement, world war ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: france, vichy, israel, europe, germany
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22%
The Boat Is Full (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating
Plot: world war two, holocaust, refugee, children, ship, social problems, age-gap relationship, youth, train, politics, soldier, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s
Place: switzerland, germany, europe, zurich switzerland
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22%
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Red Cherry (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
Style: serious, touching, bleak, mesmerizing, saga ...
Plot: world war two, monastery, tattoo, orphan, military, innocence lost, life is a bitch, youth, war, society, anti war, boarding school life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: russia, china, moscow russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Mark of Cain (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, realistic
Plot: court martial, soldier, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, political unrest, legal, life is a bitch, courtroom, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Man Who Will Come (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, youth, german army, family relations, against humanity, life is a bitch, parents and children, village life, village, nazi, children, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944, year 1943
Place: italy, europe
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21%
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style: tense, bleak, brutal, harsh, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, prison, brutality, counterfeit money, war crime, war, racial slur, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008, year 2007 ...
Place: germany, europe, poland, austria, vienna ...
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21%
The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
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21%
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Savage Grace (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
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21%
Death in Venice (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style: sentimental, art house, scenic, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: obsession, fall in love, boy, gays and lesbians, hotel, unrequited love, love and romance, art, teenage boy, pedophilia, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1971, victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Last Train (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, anti semitism, danger, pow, life is a bitch, nazi germany, war, confined, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, israel, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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