Movies like The Boys 1962

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The Boys (1962)
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The Boys (1962)
Original name: Pojat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Style: crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, boy, control, wartime life, russo finnish war, childhood, children in wartime, teenager, school, fight, nazi, winter, train, forest, teacher, friendship, golddigger, schoolboy, journalist, summer, priest, nazi germany, cemetery, theft, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: finland
Keyword: german, gold digger

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and captivating films with plots about world war two, nazi, boy, wartime life, soldier, coming of age and military mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Boys: Jojo Rabbit (2019), The Partisans (1963), Barefoot (2017), Calm at Sea (2011), Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must ...
Style: sad, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, psychological ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, nazi, boy, satire, nazi germany, jewish girl, nazism, first love, hitler, violence, coming of age, hitler youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 2010s, year 2019, year 1944
Place: germany, los angeles, central europe
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The Partisans (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, russo finnish war, conservative, post traumatic stress disorder, male female relationship, female nudity, partisan, friendship, priest, drinking, male nudity, hallucination ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: finland, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 894
Barefoot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 820
Calm at Sea (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style: rough, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german soldier, repression, french resistance, communist, execution, nazi officer, suppression, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the ...
Style: freeze frame, crying
Plot: children, world war two, nazi, wartime life, young love, public nudity, vigilante justice, photography, nudity, bare butt, stroke, piano ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, germany, prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Unknown Soldier (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
Style: realistic, exciting, captivating, serious, rough
Plot: world war two, war, female nudity, eastern front, russo finnish war, conservative, world war one, infantry, battles, heroes, military, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942, year 1941 ...
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Marathon (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young ...
Style: freeze frame, crying, tragicomedy
Plot: machine gun, world war two, bare butt, bare chested male, cannon, shootout, surrender, revolutionary, flea, czech german relations, blinded, school janitor ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Goodbye, Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, depressing, art house, christian film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, french resistance, friendship, childhood, coming of age, schoolboy, children, gestapo, school, teacher ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: france, israel, vichy, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Jacob the Liar (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style: realistic, emotional, uplifting, tragicomedy, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, judaism, world war two, nazi, death, friendship, genocide, hopes, gestapo, radio, military, murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Silence (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, life is a bitch, heroes, idealism, heroism, death of son, russo finnish war, eastern front, soldier, nervous breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Persian Lessons (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style: captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sign of the Beast (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, war propaganda, frustration, male nudity, anti war, suicide, wedding, deserter, fistfight, wedding party, torture ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Ambush (1999)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, military, ethnic conflict, courage, culture clash, justice, visceral, behind enemy lines, lone hero, battles, danger, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s
Place: russia, finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
18%
Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, nazi, wounded soldier, german soldier, death of loved one, male protagonist, soldier, singer, bomb, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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18%
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Style: period piece, light, costume drama, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, women, stepmother stepson relationship, nazi, fascism, friendship, coming of age, lesbian, world war, youth, british, art ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1935
Place: italy, florence, germany, europe, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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That Instant, That While (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...
Style: crying
Plot: world war two, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, voice over narration, town, waiter, single mother, little boy, revenge, flashback, flash forward ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, children in wartime, resistance, nazi, wartime life, winter, execution, occupation, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
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18%
Mother of Mine (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, secrets, children, boy, loneliness, wartime, life is a bitch, family relations, wartime life, adoption, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style: bleak, disturbing, meditative, black and white, art house ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: orphan, world war two, war, courage, boy, youth, great patriotic war, coming of age, childhood, children in wartime, adolescence, death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Ithaca (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, realistic, freeze frame ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, family relations, friendship, promise, husband wife relationship, teenage boy, jealousy, fear, death of brother, anti war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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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18%
The Interrogation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot: russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, convict, soviet spy, military officer, russian spy, socialist, cell, female spy, breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: soviet union, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Howling Miller (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a ...
Plot: fugitive, forest, countryside, drug use, police chase, robbery, secret love, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, love, rural setting, squad ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the ...
Style: black and white, avant garde, spiritual, surreal, no music ...
Plot: holocaust, surrealism, children in wartime, boy, nazi, shoah, social outcast, coming of age, renaissance, memory, language barrier, entertainment ...
Time: 1940s
Place: eastern europe, germany, ussr, central europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
Style: realistic, talky, teen, harsh, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, coming of age, youth, prank, friendship, boy, dark humor, adaptation, juvenile delinquency, friends, high school life, school ...
Time: 70s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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