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The Last Metro (1980)
 7.3
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The Last Metro (1980)
Original name: Le Dernier Métro
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, manga, anthology, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, love triangle, infidelity, anti semitism, actor, love and romance, life is a bitch, confined, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love, lesbian, propaganda, marriage, war, time travel, passion, partisan, politics ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942, 40s
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris, germany, tokyo, poland
Keyword: jewish, german, french

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Most similar movies to The Last Metro

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and gloomy films with plots about world war two, love and romance, love, couples, wartime life, couple relations and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Last Metro: Mississippi Mermaid (1969), The Army of Shadows (1969), Pornography (2003), Lili Marleen (1981), Jules and Jim (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, nudity, mail order bride, murder, plantation, marriage, love story, bdsm, female villain, time travel, dangerous women, american south ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, mississippi, nice france, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Pornography (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, biting ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, countryside, social differences, obsession, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, teenage life, war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 4K
Lili Marleen (1981)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style: clever, witty, stylized, art house, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi germany, nazi, world war two, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, nazism, dictatorship, dictator, love, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
 44K
Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 5K
East/West (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style: touching, heartbreaking, realistic, harsh, sentimental ...
Plot: iron curtain, kgb, propaganda, survival, freedom, brutality, stalinism, destiny, tragedy, communism, brainwashing, love story ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place: russia, france, ussr, soviet union, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 3K
Strayed (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man, occupied france, wartime life, male nudity, refugee, survival, friendship, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: paris france, france, europe, riviera, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, harsh, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: holocaust, love triangle, sex, suicide, jealousy, nazi, manipulation, infidelity, love and romance, unrequited love, musician's life, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: hungary, germany, eastern europe, budapest, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Style: touching, romantic, uplifting, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: world war two, writers, german occupation, marriage proposal, letter, nazi occupation, fiance fiancee relationship, friendship, strong female character, german soldier, nazi, female writer ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Woman Next Door (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, anthology ...
Plot: adultery, neighbor, obsession, crimes of passion, love story, extramarital affair, love triangle, tragic love, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.7
 218
November Moon (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, world war two, lgbt, world war, holocaust, strong female presence, love triangle, wartime life, woman in danger, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: paris france, france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: clergy, world war two, atheist, religion, catholic priest, church, faith, priest, unfulfilled love, self discovery, theology, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1961
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Matter of Resistance (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: world war two, world war, resistance, d day, countryside, love triangle, wooing, unrequited love, invasion, parents and children, farce, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1966, year 1944, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, soldier, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, confined, society, resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hanover Street (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, secret mission, aviation, war, secret agent, couples, infidelity, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, danger, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 1940s
Place: london, france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Unfair Competition (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: fascism, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, social decay, family business, political unrest, human nature, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, against humanity, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Arch of Triumph (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony ...
Style: noir, gloomy, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, wartime, doctor, intrigue, concentration camp, unfulfillment, vengeance, against humanity, war, love and romance, on the run ...
Time: 1930s
Place: paris france, europe, france, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 11K
Indochine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She ...
Style: visual, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, stylized ...
Plot: adoption, colonialism, women, vietnam war, love story, politics, dictatorship, dictator, sexual content, war, interracial relations, naval officer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1940s ...
Place: southeast asia, vietnam, indochina, france, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
At First Sight (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, lesbianism, partisan, girl power, women, woman ...
Time: year 1983, 1950s, year 1942, year 1952
Place: paris france, france, lyon, europe, alps ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 5.9
 794
Spring 1941 (2007)
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, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: middle east, eastern europe, poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Changing Times (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: first love, marriage, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, siblings relations, love affair, parents and children, fall in love, aging, forbidden love, family problems, couples ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: morocco, tangier morocco, south africa, africa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy, Portugal
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: writers, childhood, art, voyeurism, writer's life, melancholy, book, death, memory, storytelling, surrealism, artist ...
Time: year 1999, 1920s, 20th century, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, retro ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, death, family relations, wartime life, military, life is a bitch, society, politics, state affairs, holocaust, heroic mission ...
Time: year 1939, year 1938, 1930s, 1940s
Place: argentina, france, paris france, latin america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 1K
Free Men (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: german occupation, world war two, resistance, friendship, human spirit, idealism, rebellion, moral dilemma, fighting the system, anti semitism, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Two English Girls (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style: art house, erotic drama, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, nudity, sex, love, abuse, relationships, women, crazy love, loss of virginity, unrequited love, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1971, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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