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The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
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The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
Style: serious, realistic, sex comedy, independent film
Plot: world war two, anti war, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, human spirit, war, rescue, pow, german officer, hopes, prisoner, rivalry, wartime, village, love, christmas, dog, dancing, horse, boxing, gambling, airplane, prison escape, fight ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 40s
Place: ireland, europe, london
Keyword: irish, german, french, english, canadian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about world war two, war, wartime life, love, love and romance, soldier and world war mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Brylcreem Boys: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), Captive Hearts (1987), Charlotte Gray (2001), The Land Girls (1998), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love, impossible love, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: greece, europe, albania
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Captive Hearts (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, ...
Style: independent film, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, world war, violent content, mountain, war, against the odds, concentration camp, prison life, wartime life, captivity, forbidden love, village life ...
Time: year 1987, year 1944
Place: japan, asia
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100%
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Charlotte Gray (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, espionage, french resistance, war, nazi, holocaust, spy, wartime life, resistance, women, wartime, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: france, vichy, london, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
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58%
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A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style: contemplative, depressing, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime, colonialism, legion, foreign legion, world war, renaissance, love, painter, prostitute, widow ...
Time: year 1984, post world war two, year 1946, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland, arizona ...
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Come See the Paradise (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, interracial romance, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, white man asian woman relationship, hospital, death ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1941
Place: hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, north dakota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, female nudity, nazi, fascism, terrorism, wartime, nazi concentration camp, renaissance, survival, concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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53%
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For the Moment (1993)
Genre: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot ...
Style: realistic, romantic, sentimental, serious, independent film
Plot: world war two, love, war, betrayal, infidelity, bittersweet, wartime, aviation, training, flying, air force, couples ...
Time: 1940s
Place: canada
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52%
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Zelary (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: world war two, small town, resistance, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, hopes, fugitives ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, lesbian, spanish civil war, lesbianism, bisexual woman, sexual relations, love triangle, group sex, war, love, orgy, betrayal ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 2004 ...
Place: paris france, england, france, germany, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Dark Blue World (2001)
Genre: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new ...
Style: sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, non-linear ...
Plot: aviation, world war two, war, friendship, culture clash, air battle, love triangle, wartime life, battle zone, world war, wartime, prison ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2001, post world war two, year 1939 ...
Place: england, london, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Strayed (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man, occupied france, wartime life, male nudity, refugee, survival, friendship, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: paris france, france, europe, riviera, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, UK, Canada, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the ...
Style: romantic, realistic, emotional, touching, retro ...
Plot: world war two, love, friendship, destiny, bittersweet, runaway, loneliness, hospital, love hurts, wilderness, indigenous people, time travel ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, 1930s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: canada, england, germany, london, montreal
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49%
The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
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48%
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Talk of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, fall in love, politics, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time: year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place: ireland, europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: world war two, friends, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, social differences, love affair, couple relations, opposites attract, interfaith relationship, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian ...
Style: meditative, melancholic, talky, light, atmospheric ...
Plot: unlikely friendships, politics, military, soldier, state affairs, moral dilemma, political unrest, wartime life, military life, injustice, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1994, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style: lyrical, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, gypsy, world war two, love story, anti semitism, adaptation, wartime, secrets, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
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47%
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American Pastime (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: world war two, interracial relations, human spirit, baseball, immigrant, rivalry, hopes, society, anti war, racism, wartime life, small town ...
Time: 1940s
Place: los angeles, utah, pearl harbor
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47%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Edge of Love (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, marriage, husband wife relationship, jealousy, infidelity, writers, pregnancy, world war two, unfulfillment, love, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008
Place: wales, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: world war two, war, love, military, combat, airplane, love triangle, navy, fighter pilot, wartime, aviation, love and romance ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place: hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, america ...
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46%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: eastern europe, israel, poland, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Swing Shift (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, love triangle, wartime, courage, adultery, storytelling, unlikely friendships, betrayal, fascism, love and romance, sexism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 3K
In Tranzit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wartime life, soldier, holocaust, captivity, life is a bitch, against humanity, prisoners of war, prison life, genocide, confined, society, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
Hanover Street (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, secret mission, aviation, war, secret agent, couples, infidelity, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, danger, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 1940s
Place: london, france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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