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Smyrna (2021)
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Original name: Σμύρνη μου Αγαπημένη
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece, USA, Cyprus
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, family saga
Plot:
genocide, family relations, war crime, assault, witness, tragedy, massacre, memory, destruction, occupation, refugee, loss, ethnic cleansing, exodus, survival, evacuation, political conflict, testimony, identity, mourning, diaspora, nostalgia, biopic, armenian genocide, archive footage ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ottoman empire, greece, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, historical drama, period piece and emotional films with plots about survival, world war two, memory, trauma, genocide, refugee and loss mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Smyrna: Don't Cry, Nanking (1995), Storm (2023), Farewell to Manzanar (1976), The World Will Tremble (2025), Red Poppies (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
world war two, war crime, suffering, sexual abuse, mass murder, trauma, brutality, rape, loss, political conflict, prisoners of war, occupation ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, year 1938
Place:
china, shanghai
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Country: Serbia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Follow the story of the people who were expelled from Krajina in 1995 and the suffering of the Serb people in Croatia.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, historical drama, tragic
Plot:
refugee, grief, trauma, war crime, exodus, political conflict, human rights, survival, evacuation, identity crisis, nationalism, border crossing ...
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balkan, croatia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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historical drama, bleak, emotional, educational, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, american history, detention, identity, civil liberties, racism, trauma, evacuation, community, prejudice, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
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77%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of the gulag and left Russia with the Polish Army as one of thousands of polish orphans. Soon a decisive attack on a monastery located on the hills of ...
Style:
dramatic, intense, historical drama, period piece, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, battlefield, combat, heroism, frontline, orphan, coming of age, trauma, survival, tragedy, brotherhood ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The destiny of a happy Armenian family, whose life will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, turkish history, mass murder, life is a bitch, social problems, loss, trauma, memory, inheritance, grief, survivor ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
ottoman empire, armenia, turkey
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, ...
Style:
saga, emotional, historical drama, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, biopic, exile, refugee, motherhood, immigration, family drama, survival, mother son relationship, resilience, family relations ...
Place:
armenia, marseille, ottoman empire, france, provence
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, in order to save his life, postman A Chang pretended to be a photo developer in a photo studio and developed photos for the Japanese army. He also took in a group of Chinese soldiers and civilians, turning the studio ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, educational, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
photography, japanese army, japanese occupation, refugee, heroism, sacrifice, occupation, resilience, wartime, moral ambiguity, resistance, urban ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1937
Place:
china
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
Style:
historical drama, political, intense, art house, bleak
Plot:
bosnian war, world war two, coming of age, labor camp, survival, trauma, father son relationship, memory, ethnic conflict, pow, occupation, anti war ...
Time:
90s, 1940s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, bosnia, balkan, sarajevo ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, witness, war crime, genocide, atrocity, memory, anti semitism, auschwitz ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
war crime, chemical weapon, family drama, iraq iran war, trauma, problem, life is a bitch, threat, social realism, realism, anti war, fatherhood ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iran, kurdistan
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. ...
Style:
historical romance, historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, star crossed lovers, relationships, family problems, couple relations, forceful separation, male female relationship, family relations, love story, romantic relationship, relationship problems, fall in love ...
Time:
1890s, 1910s
Place:
ottoman empire, istanbul turkey, greece
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, UK, Poland, Singapore
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
Style:
period piece, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Plot:
widow, female protagonist, trauma, grief, memory, secrets, post war, mother and daughter, loss, regret, family secret, identity ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982 ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, political conflict, political repression, student protest, human rights, holocaust, resistance movement, fear, identity, memory ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
eastern europe
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46%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
hunger, starvation, loss, family tragedy, village life, realism, mourning, survival, social commentary, oppression, memory, political repression ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, bleak, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, persecution, collaboration, moral dilemma, secret police, resistance, danger, courage, gestapo, risk, survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Bilkis Banu lost her husband Hasan on the night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, Mrs Khan and many more. But when spies and the razakars inform them, ...
Style:
political, bleak, emotional, grim, tense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
45%
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Genre: History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of a refugee from Kazakhstan who in the spring of 2022 saved hundreds of Ukrainians in Bucha and other cities and towns occupied by Russian troops.
Style:
tense, realistic, political
Plot:
heroism, rescue, danger, war crime, war zone, humanitarian, occupation, refugee, loss, compassion, survival, grief ...
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, kazakhstan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
42%
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, poignant, serious, meditative ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, actor, trauma, jewish history, memories, haunting, empathy, memory, guilt, survival, identity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989
Place:
hungary, los angeles, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, fascism, exile, political repression, memory, flashback, family history, reflection, totalitarianism, nostalgia, memories, butler ...
Time:
20th century, year 1939
Place:
barcelona, catalonia
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Sati system was abolished decades ago but Jhola is still relevant to today's Nepal where, unfortunately, cases of sexual harassment, violence against women, trafficking remain all too common.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, surreal, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, orphan, dealing with death, death in the family, oppression, patriarchy, social injustice, women's rights ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
nepal, asia
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39%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, educational, serious
Plot:
world war one, war, genocide, nationalism, battles, against humanity, military, turk, great war, turkish history, arab culture, islam ...
Place:
turkey, ottoman empire
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39%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Rwanda, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
genocide, massacre, coup, racism, against humanity, rwandan genocide, murder, civil war, politics, mass child killing, ethnic cleansing, mass murder ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1994, 90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, washington d.c., uganda, france ...
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to provide his services. But even in rural America -- far from the frontline -- the war finds victims.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, historical drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, wartime life, life is a bitch, parents and children, family in crisis, against humanity, couple relations, family problems, couples, family drama, empathy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, politics, rwandan genocide, civil war, betrayal, hopes, chaos, military, dishonesty, righting the wronged, anti war, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, ireland, uganda, east africa ...
Similarity:
36%
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