Movies like Red Moon 2004
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Red Moon (2004)
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Original name: 赤い月
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tense, suspense, period drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occupation, world war two, family drama, family bonds, soldier, wartime, choice, social problems, family problems, family business, moral dilemma, japanese occupation, wartime life, female protagonist, resilience, survival, tragedy, loss, small town, intimate, parenting, evacuation, cultural conflict, survivalist, patriotism ...
Place:
japan, hokkaido
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Most similar movies to Red Moon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and period piece films with plots about world war two, survival, wartime, occupation, war, betrayal and loss mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Red Moon: Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017), Hanagatami (2017), Before It Ends (2023), Our Time Will Come (2017), I Am a Teacher (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during ...
Style:
art house, suspense, historical drama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, unrequited love, resistance, partisan, family problems, love triangle, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime, war, relationship problems, political conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary ...
Style:
surreal, art house, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, adolescence, symbolism, coming of age, life is a bitch, teenager, wartime life, surrealism, teenage life, anti war, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
japan, pearl harbor
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese occupation, world war two, mother daughter relationship, sacrifice, courage, resistance, military, arrest, family relations, life is a bitch, occupation, partisan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This war drama is dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). It revolves around Pavel Zubov, a school teacher whose village was occupied by the fascists. Being a teacher is his calling in life. He believes in such basic human ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, great patriotic war, german occupation, occupation, world war two, wartime, nazi occupation, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, teacher ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
orphan, korean war, korean army, empathy, life is a bitch, wartime, military, wartime life, social problems, war, kids in trouble, military officer ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
Style:
tense, period piece, suspense, emotional, macaroni combat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, tank, soldier, survival, battles, german soldier, retreat, occupied france, battlefield, ambush, loss, cross cultural relations ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
normandy
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, tragedy, family drama, poverty, occupation, family bonds, political conflict, loss, identity, loss of innocence, nationalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, romania, poland, ussr
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style:
rough, psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, struggle for survival, sibling relationship, bombing, brother sister relationship, firefly, little girl, wartime, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, kids in trouble ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
Style:
islamic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, iraq iran war, kurd, love, wartime, relationships, male female relationship, moral dilemma, sacrifice, frontline, anti war, humanism ...
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, persia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot.
Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yoko Sudo (Mao Inoue) through World War II. Yoko Sudo with her smile is able to bring ...
Style:
asadora, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, female protagonist, slice of life, optimism, resilience, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, women, motherhood, coming of age, heartwarming ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, midwife, auschwitz, war criminal, atrocity, holocaust, life is a bitch, abortionist, jew persecution, wartime, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Style:
tragic ending, poignant, bleak, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, desertion, sacrifice, gypsy, loss, partisan, female protagonist, loyalty, resistance movement, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, disturbing, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, wartime, war crime, world war one, family home, butler, ethnic conflict, nationalism, political unrest, life is a bitch, love affair ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1900s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, bleak, tension, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, desertion, escape, occupation, military camp, forbidden romance, german soldier, survival, danger, young lovers, cross cultural relations, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
War drama set at the end of the Continuation War in 1944 on the Karelian Isthmus. It is the story of the men who prepared food on the front - the cookhouse crew. The series also follows the fate of Tauno's family amid the turmoil of war. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, period piece, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, horse, wartime, military, soldier, frontline, trauma, survival, military life, brotherhood, fatherhood, duty ...
Time:
year 1944
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, romantic, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
female protagonist, relationships, love and romance, love interest, teacher, diary, in love, female teacher, lifestyle, reading someone else's diary, love story, reflection ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, romantic drama
Plot:
world war two, german officer, nazi occupation, french resistance, german soldier, german occupation, nazi, french girl, female protagonist, forbidden love, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their journey West, Captain von Stock and his battle group are arrive in a small village located not far from a strategically important river crossing. The village is frequented by a constant stream of refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet army.
Style:
sincere, suspense, disturbing, bleak, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, refugee, wartime, soldier, war refugee, war, small village, village, russian army, red army, life is a bitch, wartime life ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
spy, world war two, murder, japanese occupation of china, japanese wife, family relations, wartime, female protagonist, male female relationship, social problems, lifestyle, occupation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, social problems, wartime life, life is a bitch, wartime, couple relations, romantic relationship, loner, war, love story, in love, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, period piece, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, tragic romance, small town, infidelity, intimacy, passion, interfaith relationship, loss, tragedy, adultery, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, war, heroic mission, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place:
japan, pacific ocean, oceania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Georgia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Shindisi tells the story of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war through the fate of 17 Georgian soldiers who died during the Shindisi battle. The script was written by Irakli Solomanashvili based on real facts and the cast includes Georgian actors as well ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
military, occupation, battles, heroism, land grab, hostile takeover, sacrifice, loss, wartime, soldier, aggression, russian soldier ...
Place:
georgia, caucasus
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, danger, fear, oppression, secret police, world war two, military life, star crossed lovers, military officer, love affair, wartime ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, bombing, war, survival, military, moral dilemma, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, fall in love, danger, military life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Style:
bleak, period piece, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, friendship, occupation, resistance, partisan, survival, underground movement, loss, courage, fighter, duty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
albania, kosovo, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies)
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, farm hand, female protagonist, village life, murderer, secret, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
35%
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