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Foreign Prayer (2017)
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Original name: Чужа молитва
Genre: Biography
Country: Ukraine, Georgia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nazi-occupied Crimea, 1944. A boy named Itzhak turns to Saide Arifova, a local Tatar Muslim woman, for help, explaining that he and a group of other Jewish orphans are hiding from the Nazis. Arifova faces a moral dilemma: should she try to help them or save herself by refusing? Despite the impending danger, she decides to protect the children by hiding them in plain sight, and disguising them as Tatars and adopting them into the local community.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, emotional, tension, atmospheric, tear jerker ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, world war two, holocaust, rescue, life is a bitch, courage, moral dilemma, nazi occupation, persecution, war, children, wartime, society, social problems, child, family problems, wartime life, kids in trouble, orphan, fear, humanity, sacrifice, bravery, danger, female protagonist ...
Place:
crimea
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Most similar movies to Foreign Prayer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, historical drama, period piece and psychological films with plots about biopic, world war two, life is a bitch, sacrifice, wartime life, holocaust and courage mostly in Biography, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Foreign Prayer: Not All Were Murderers (2006), An Irrepressible Woman (2019), Mafalda of Savoy (2006), Under the Roman Sky (2010), Berenshtein (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, coming of age, false identity, lie, deportation, boy, persecution, nazi germany, holocaust, anti semitism, oppression ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, lovers apart, older man younger woman relationship, true love, biopic, wartime, concentration camp, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, social problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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83%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, vatican, catholic, faith, pope, nazi occupation, occupation, survival, moral ambiguity, biopic, diplomacy, clergy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, emotional, reflective, historical drama ...
Plot:
biopic, father daughter relationship, courtroom, organized crime, sicilian mafia, court, judge, courtroom drama, problem, family relations, career, judiciary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, moral dilemma, soldier, guerilla warfare, nazi occupation, military, life is a bitch, holocaust, nazi germany, german officer, military life, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, History
Country: France
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
The deeds of Jean Moulin, a hero of the French Resistance.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, german occupation, resistance, courage, resistance movement, biopic, problem, war, life is a bitch, nazi germany, underground ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
france, paris france, europe, marseille
Similarity:
55%
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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:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, hopes, deportation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography
Country: Serbia
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Story:
Its plot is bound to a specific time of the cathartic end of the World War II in Serbia. The heart of the story is a unique endeavor - the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen in aviation history of all time, known as the “Halyard ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense
Plot:
rescue attempt, world war two, courage, heroism, danger, sacrifice, end of war, evacuation, solidarity, survival, triumph, occupation ...
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sea battle, shipwreck, rescue, sea, naval officer, castaway, sunken ship, war, warship, sinking ship, humanity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, historical drama
Plot:
political repression, jailed, male female relationship, gulag, political persecution, political prisoner, couple relations, love affair, wartime, relationships, love story, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1934
Place:
siberia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
mexican revolution, biopic, love of one's life, pancho villa, murder mystery, male female relationship, problem, murder, murderer, sexual tension, extramarital affair, murder investigation ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is ...
Style:
political, historical drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
revolution, biopic, independence, political prisoner, underground movement, revolutionary, wartime life, wartime, life is a bitch, political unrest, nationalism, leadership ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of Shivaji Maharaj, who grew up without parental love. Sambhaji proved himself a fearless and brave ruler, winning battles and instilling fear in the Mughal Empire.
Style:
heroic, epic, dramatic, intense, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
leadership, biopic, ruler, royalty, courage, bravery, patriotism, honor, nationalism, dynasty, political intrigue, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
india
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.
Style:
reflective, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intimate, writers, life, relationships, social problems, social relations, regret, novelist, mentor, solitude, literary, memory ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, nazism, female protagonist, holocaust, jewish history, wartime, problem, nazi germany, wartime life, jewish life, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939
Place:
poland
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, cannon, world war two, concentration camp, women's prison, writers, women, secret mission, wartime, wartime life, spy, world war ...
Place:
israel, middle east, hungary
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, hiding, life is a bitch, child custody, nazi occupied france, occupied france, rescue, anti semitism, german occupation, persecution, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, hopes, tragic hero, captivity, introspection, downfall, society, medieval, nude girl, strong female presence, religions or cults, heroes ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages
Place:
europe, france, england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, War
Country: Japan, Poland, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, diplomat, social problems, politics, wartime, life is a bitch, historical character, jew persecution, political unrest, political intrigue, japanese military, japanese soldier ...
Place:
lithuania, japan
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by ...
Style:
captivating, serious, stylized, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
saint, church, religion, catholic, pope, religions or cults, society, clergy, dishonesty, ambition, life is a bitch, unfulfillment ...
Time:
13th century, middle ages
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
child, totalitarianism, family drama, oppression, political repression, child protagonist, mother daughter relationship, children, social problems, promise, society, stalinism ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
estonia, ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, tension, period piece
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, double agent, deception, female protagonist, female spy, moral ambiguity, nazi germany, betrayal, danger, political intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
stockholm sweden, oslo norway
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, inspirational ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, female protagonist, rescue attempt, compassion, heroism, concentration camp, child custody, rescue, nazi, child in peril, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Arigo, an uneducated man, happily married, father of six, is chosen by a mysterious force to rise up as a spiritually and supernaturally gifted surgeon. Miraculously healing thousands of desperate people, he now faces the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, inspirational, historical drama ...
Plot:
spiritualism, supernatural power, spirituality, supernatural, hopes, faith healing, life is a bitch, healing, social problems, religious faith, faith, religious ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti semitism, world war two, wartime life, youth, elderly, holocaust, teenage life, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, cause and meaning, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, england, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Based on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
autobiography, journey, biopic, heroes, director, actor, travel, cultural icon, actor's life, tribute, film industry, ambition ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
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