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731 (2025)
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Based on true events set during WWII in Northeast China, an ordinary man is thrust into a turbulent fate against the backdrop of the inhumane bacterial experiments conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army's notorious Unit 731.
Style:
medical horror, disturbing, historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, grim, suspenseful, historically accurate
Plot:
world war two, human experiment, war crime, biological warfare, survival, atrocity, trauma, prisoner, graphic violence, anti war, cover up, dehumanization, ethical dilemma, investigation, exploitation, human experimentation, mystery
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Most similar movies to 731
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, historical drama, period piece and tense films with plots about world war two, survival, war crime, trauma, holocaust, resistance and nazi mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like 731: Witnesses (2018), Red Poppies (2024), The Angel of Auschwitz (2019), The Quality of Mercy (1994), Tank T-34 (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
159
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 ...
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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
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86%
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:
81%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tension
Plot:
world war two, winter, escape, war crime, manhunt, persecution, survival, fear, barbarism, desperation, holocaust, collaboration ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
78%
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291
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, period piece, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, tank, great patriotic war, prisoners of war, escape, resistance, heroism, nazi, battles, survival, sacrifice, battlefield ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of ...
Style:
bleak, grim, historical drama, period piece, tense
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, deportation, indifference, accomplice, police brutality, ethical dilemma, corruption, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazism, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Serbia
Story:
A story inspired by the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen behind enemy lines in aviation history of all time, codenamed “The Halyard Mission”. This action took place in the summer of 1944. It was led by the Yugoslav Army in ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, bleak, family saga
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, heroism, friendship, survival, evacuation, resistance movement, military operation, courage, dangerous mission, patriotism, nobility ...
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
53%
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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
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, tense, political ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, hitler, world war, wartime, strategy, moral dilemma, war, sudden ending, politics, ultimatum, ambassador ...
Place:
soviet union, poland, united kingdom, france, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
53%
1K
Genre: Biography, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four American soldiers in WW2, after witnessing the vicious murder of an innocent civilian at the hands of their platoon Sergeant, are sent on a reconnaissance/suicide mission led by a local partisan.
Style:
tense, heavy, harsh, dramatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, partisan, moral ambiguity, war, war atrocity, warrior, military officer, sergeant, army sergeant, brutality, american soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
52%
192
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Father Javier lives a fractured existence: on one side, he helps families who've witnessed miracles, and on the other he belongs to a trio of excommunicated priests who hunt the possessed down to exorcise them under their own terms: with ...
Style:
intense, tense, grim, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
possession, exorcism, supernatural, ethical dilemma, redemption, trauma, moral ambiguity, vigilante justice, urban decay, investigation, survival, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style:
serious, bleak, historical drama, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, nurse, vivisection, guilt, accomplice, mature, atrocity, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, war crime, mental disorder, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
japan
Similarity:
51%
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
Similarity:
51%
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:
51%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, political thriller, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazi germany, assassination attempt, biopic, gestapo, sacrifice, courage, resistance, moral ambiguity, investigation, underdog ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, munich germany
Similarity:
50%
1K
Genre: History, Thriller, War
Country: Ukraine
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:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, bleak, grim
Plot:
world war two, prisoner of war camp, war crime, prison, pow, survival, vengeance, justice, manhunt, heroism, brotherhood, bravery ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, also called Men Behind the Sun 4, is a 1994 Hong Kong film directed by Mou Tun Fei and is in many ways considered to be a follow up to the 1987 shockumentary film, Men Behind the Sun. The movie depicts the events ...
Style:
perverse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, classic horror ...
Plot:
genocide, castration, world war two, rape, japanese soldier, war crime, massacre, gory, violent, violence, imperial japan, torture ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, japan, asia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
Similarity:
45%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
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
Similarity:
43%
204
Genre: History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, european history, jewish history, war crime, rescue, memories, persecution, survival, deportation, auschwitz, heroism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
slovakia, central europe
Similarity:
42%
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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:
40%
Genre: History, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, scientific expedition, ship, wartime, military, expedition, war, mission, moral dilemma, isolation, political intrigue, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1939
Similarity:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
oppression, totalitarianism, dissident, kgb, brutality, psychological torture, human rights, fear, conscience, resistance, trauma, interrogation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, reconnaissance, behind enemy lines, battles, great patriotic war, military, heroic mission, danger, anti nazi, soviet army, eastern front ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ukraine, crimea, ussr
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to ...
Style:
bleak, rough, suspense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, businessman, factory, conflict, german occupation, family relations, industry, nazi occupation, collaboration, money, industrialist, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
38%
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, realistic, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
genocide, family relations, assault, war crime, witness, tragedy, ethnic cleansing, occupation, exodus, destruction, refugee, loss ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ottoman empire, greece, turkey
Similarity:
37%
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