Movies like Defiance 2008
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Defiance (2008)
151K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Style:
emotional, sincere, epic, dramatic, realistic, psychological, motivational, clever, touching, breathtaking ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, war, survival, nazi, judaism, partisan, genocide, rebellion, military, revenge, prejudice, nazism, russian, hopes, rebelliousness, wartime life, escapades, resistance, red army, winter, politics, world war, fight ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942, 40s
Place:
poland, germany, russia, israel, europe
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, France
Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 145 min.
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In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 112 min.
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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 131 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
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Duration: 121 min.
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Duration: 132 min.
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Duration: 115 min.
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