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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
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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 Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, period piece, suspense, tense, retro, intense, lighthearted, historical drama ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, rescue, social worker, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, life is a bitch, against humanity, jew persecution, confined, anti semitism, holocaust survivor, biopic, military, wartime, help, jewish life, women, saint, heroism, humanity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and disturbing films with plots about nazi, world war two, holocaust, world war, nazi uniform, war and against humanity mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler: The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Varian's War (2001), The Island on Bird Street (1997), A Bag of Marbles (2017), Run Boy Run (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style:
factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style:
tense, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, hidden identity, uncover truth, politics, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, state affairs, rescue, danger, escapades, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, europe, usa, marseille
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style:
period piece, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, judaism, ethics, boy strangling, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
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100%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boy, children in wartime, youth, human spirit, corporal punishment, medical examination, young heroes, on the run, hidden identity, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, death of son, suicide, nazi, wartime, world war, holocaust, shoah, murder, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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75%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, nazi germany, anti semitism, danger, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, israel, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, love triangle, sexual content, family in danger, couple relations, confined, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, middle east, poland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Polish Martin Gray (Michael York) recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife (Brigitte Fossey) and family.
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, holocaust survivor, nazi occupied france, revolutionary war, world war, struggle, revolutionary, revolution, freedom, immigration ...
Place:
eastern europe, warsaw poland, usa, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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57%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer, who struggles to redeem her reputation. Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to American troops during World War II, Mildred’s story exposes the dark underbelly of the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, inspirational
Plot:
military dictatorship, nazi, world war two, propaganda, collaborator, female protagonist, political propaganda, wartime, nazi propaganda, national socialism, rough sex, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, anti semitism, refugee, heroes, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage life, life turned upside down, family in danger, crime against humanity, danger ...
Time:
year 2019, 1930s, year 1933
Place:
germany, switzerland, berlin germany, paris france, swiss alps ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Style:
political, tense, thought provoking, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazi germany, third reich, character study, biopic, architecture, ambition, moral ambiguity, ideology, totalitarianism, rise to power ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task – using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, historical drama, freeze frame
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, auschwitz, shoah, holocaust survivor, prison, nazi concentration camp, nazi germany, judaism, women ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
america, germany, paris france, poland
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, on the run, human spirit, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Style:
bleak, spiritual, independent film, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi concentration camp, world war two, jew persecution, christian, faith, christianity, shoah, christian faith, religion, political intrigue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, year 1940
Place:
holland, europe, netherlands
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
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26%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, society, world war, strong female character ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
nazi, world war two, third reich, bunker, ss, military, world war, eastern front, biopic, hitler, suicide, holocaust ...
Time:
year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
genocide, holocaust, war, world war two, anti semitism, survival, moral dilemma, heroes, confined, lifesaver, against humanity, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, baltics
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style:
bleak, realistic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi germany, nazi, against humanity, suicide, confinement indoors, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, downfall, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, budapest, italy, spain
Similarity:
23%
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
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, time travel, anti semitism, nazi, world war, human spirit, against humanity, hopes, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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