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Father of a Soldier (1964)
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Original name: ჯარისკაცის მამა
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, spiritual, sad, crying, patriotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, military, father son relationship, red army, soldier, fatherhood, dead son, wound, death of son, holocaust, wartime, spirituality, caucasian, patriot, love letter, world war, eastern front, tank, village, fight, army, nazi germany, hospital, farmer ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, georgia, russia, berlin germany
Keyword: russian, georgia (former ussr)

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, suspenseful, captivating and realistic films with plots about world war two, soldier, great patriotic war, military, world war, war and soviet army mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Father of a Soldier: They Fought for Their Country (1975), The Hot Snow (1972), Tank T-34 (1965), At War as at War (1969), Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, sentimental, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, world war, life & death, war, camaraderie, military, nazi, retreat, eastern front, soviet soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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100%
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The Hot Snow (1972)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' ...
Plot: eastern front, artillery, world war two, world war, soviet army, female soldier, tank, military officer, soldier, nurse, russian soldier, red army ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Tank T-34 (1965)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, tank, red army, pow, behind enemy lines, self sacrifice, armor, uniform
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
At War as at War (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, patriotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soviet army, world war two, great patriotic war, military, soldier, heroism, friendship, battles, leadership, transformation, heroes, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tank Klim Voroshilov 2
Style: suspense, disturbing, sincere, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, death, tank, nazi soldier, battlefield, soldier, eastern front, danger, german soldier, wartime life, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, patriotic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, soviet army, war, soldier, great patriotic war, wartime life, female warrior, female soldier, swamp, heroic mission, military life, military ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from ...
Style: sentimental, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, fighter pilot, aviation, aerial combat, camaraderie, love, fighter plane, patriotism, friendship between men, life & death, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Alive and the Dead (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min.
Story: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, red army, cold weather, war correspondent, soldier, frontline, soviet army, tank, bombing, russian soldier, uniform ...
Time: year 1941
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Road to Berlin (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
Style: rough, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, male bonding, soldier, friendship, violence, society, fascism, friendship between men, war, world war, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
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Story: A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, war, military, battles, heroic mission, life & death, great patriotic war, betrayal, patriotism, red herring, heroism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 470
The One (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During WWII a Soviet artillery unit is fighting Nazis while trying to do everything to save lives of a group of deaf children near their position.
Style: touching, tense, emotional, sincere, captivating
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: world war two, military, wartime, killing an animal, deaf child, tank, monastery, weapons, soldier, girl, violence, death ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Mother of Men (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, rough, bleak, touching
Audience: boys' night
Plot: children, world war two, mother, heroine, kindness, survival, village, young woman, hunger, danger, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, year 1942
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Officers (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
Style: breathtaking, captivating, tense, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, chick flick
Plot: soviet army, world war two, military, army, duty, friendship, family relations, danger, partisan, russian soldier, great patriotic war, military officer ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.2
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The Ascent (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style: bleak, depressing, cerebral, sincere, sad ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, nazi, winter, christian, woman, father, politics, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, iraq, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Kalashnikov (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, informative ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, inventor, human spirit, red army, life & death, soldier, weapons, russian soldier, soviet soldier, world war, danger, engineer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia, kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: world war two, military, war, battles, infantry, soldier, american abroad, rebellion, military life, heroic mission, world war, fighting the system ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, year 1944
Place: germany, iraq, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Stalingrad (1993)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
1944 The Final Defence (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, battles, against the odds, heroes, wartime life, war, rivalry, tank, battlefield, eastern front ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland, europe, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
In Flight are the Night Witches (1981)
Genre: War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.
Style: bleak, rough, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, female warrior, female soldier, great patriotic war, women, fight, battles, wartime, aviation, soviet army, heroism, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: ukraine, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style: psychedelic
Plot: world war two, mythology, survival, border, poverty, large family, landmine, farmer, countryside, village, great patriotic war, son ...
Place: soviet union, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, world war, wartime, exploitation, holocaust, prisoner, battles, escapades, soldier, danger, confined, chases and races ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Silence (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, life is a bitch, heroes, idealism, heroism, death of son, russo finnish war, eastern front, soldier, nervous breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Beyond the Line (2019)
Genre: War
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Two Allied soldiers find themselves stuck behind enemy Nazi lines and must find a way to get back home despite the temptation to accept defeat.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, dramatic, tense
Plot: world war two, war, war injury, wounded, soldier, wound, military, wounded soldier, fight, troops, german soldier, wartime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Torpedo Bombers (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot: soviet army, aviation, world war two, world war, navy, air force, allies, ocean, battles, danger, heroes, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, road movie, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, desert, friendship, soldier, military, tank, anti war, world war, holocaust, courage, german officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: africa, france, libya, north africa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, male pubic hair, friendship, nazi germany, public humiliation, father son relationship, boy, fall in love, friends, love and romance, youth ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Fortress on Wheels (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A story about an armored train number 56 and his actions during WWII.
Plot: red army, soviet army, nazi soldier, russian soldier, exploitation, enemy, great patriotic war, commander, captain, tank, train, soldier ...
Place: soviet union, ukraine, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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