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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Original name: Max Manus
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Style: tense, intense, brutal, factual, romantic, melancholic, serious, atmospheric, political, emotional ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, wartime, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism, depression, soldier, loss of friend, world war, storytelling, life is a bitch, terrorist, rage, spy, fascism, idealism, leader, struggle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two, 40s
Place: scotland, europe, scandinavia, finland, eastern europe, stockholm sweden, oslo norway ...
Keyword: norway, norwegian, german, russian, attack, sweden, alias, doctors, jewish, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about world war two, war, military, world war, heroes, wartime and nazi mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Max Manus: Man of War: The 12th Man (2017), Anthropoid (2016), Soldier of Orange (1977), Che: Part Two (2008), Flags of Our Fathers (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The 12th Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style: uplifting, suspense, serious, costume drama, dark ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, scotland
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Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style: factual, realistic, emotional, clever, social ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, assassination, gestapo, nazi occupation, conspiracy, torture, friendship between men, suspicion, holocaust, ss, third reich ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, y2k, 90s, 2010s ...
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Soldier of Orange (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 155 min.
Story: This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch students. It follows them through the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation.
Style: tense, realistic, stylized, colorful, political thriller ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1977, 1930s
Place: netherlands, europe, london
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Che: Part Two (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. ...
Style: political, inspirational, talky, suspense, factual ...
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Time: 20th century, year 2008, 60s, year 1966, year 1967
Place: bolivia, cuba, latin america, caribbean, south america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, epic, factual ...
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Defiance (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 137 min.
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Time: 20th century, year 2012, 1940s, year 1940
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100%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min.
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Flame & Citron (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
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Duration: 130 min.
Story: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, period piece, atmospheric, factual ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
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Duration: 131 min.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
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Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.9
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Memphis Belle (1990)
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
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Style: epic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
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 6.6
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Rommel (2012)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A new film about Erwin Rommel has been shown on German television, depicting the general as a weak man undone by his links to Adolf Hitler.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: military, world war two, wehrmacht, nazi, d day, assassination attempt, political conspiracy, political unrest, state affairs, rivalry, world war, assassination plot ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The White Rose (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
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Midway (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: realistic, tense, factual, intense, suspense ...
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Place: america, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
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