Movies like Edges of the Lord

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Edges of the Lord (2001)
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Edges of the Lord (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, tense, serious, contemplative
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, catholic, nazi, coming of age, survival, human spirit, hidden identity, life is a bitch, society, lifesaver, anti semitism, fish out of water, against humanity, nazism, family in danger, hopes, religions or cults, priest, youth, sex crime, judaism, world war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place: poland, europe
Keyword: jewish, german, strawberry, mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, war, against humanity, world war and wartime life mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Edges of the Lord: I Am David (2003), All My Loved Ones (1999), Run Boy Run (2013), Goodbye, Children (1987), Amen. (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
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100%
All My Loved Ones (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, society, life turned upside down, election, youth, judaism, circus, starvation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Run Boy Run (2013)
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, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, youth, human spirit, boy, hidden identity, on the run, young heroes, orphan, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Goodbye, Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, depressing, art house, christian film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, french resistance, friendship, childhood, coming of age, schoolboy, children, gestapo, school, teacher ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: france, israel, vichy, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, pope, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, italy, czechoslovakia, austria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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The Grey Zone (2001)
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, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Genre: 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: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, children in wartime, coming of age, boy strangling, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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In Tranzit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wartime life, soldier, holocaust, captivity, life is a bitch, against humanity, prisoners of war, prison life, genocide, confined, society, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Love to Hide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, sad, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, holocaust, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, world war two, nazi, lgbtqi, betrayal, lgbt, lgbtq, traitor ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
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, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
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Fateless (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, survival, youth, life is a bitch, orthodox jew, confined, estrangement, world war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005
Place: hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: eastern europe, israel, poland, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Adam Resurrected (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Israel, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, mental illness, concentration camp, circus, patient, circus performer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 60s, 1930s ...
Place: europe, israel, middle east, berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Sky Is Falling (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: orphan, world war two, racism, parents and children, hitler youth, war, opposites attract, death in the family, family life, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, florence, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, boxing, prison, ss, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, war, shoah ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: middle east, poland, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lore (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, survival, holocaust, coming of age, nazism, youth, war, children, hitler, child as adult, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 90s, year 1945, post world war two ...
Place: germany, hamburg germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 4K
Zelary (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: world war two, small town, resistance, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, hopes, fugitives ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
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, uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: concentration camp, holocaust, time travel, world war two, nazi occupation, anti semitism, nazi, world war, human spirit, against humanity, hopes, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Europa Europa (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: political, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nazi, holocaust, hitler youth, circumcision, war, coming of age, genocide, childhood, survival, wartime, judaism, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 18K
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style: sad, cult classic, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, world war, gestapo, judaism, war, shoah, death, radio, lie ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 11K
In Darkness (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, uplifting, sincere, social ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, survival, refugee, genocide, judaism, world war, human spirit, sewer, mistrust ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2008 ...
Place: poland, germany, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Hidden Children (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, rescue, survival, orphan, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, youth, against humanity, fugitives, danger, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 6K
Mother Night (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Style: dieselpunk, political thriller, political, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, politics, holocaust, satire, world war, radio station, propaganda, guilt, book, chess ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, israel, new york, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Jacob the Liar (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style: realistic, emotional, uplifting, tragicomedy, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, judaism, world war two, nazi, death, friendship, genocide, hopes, gestapo, radio, military, murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
35%
 6.6
 2K
The Truce (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style: sincere, historical drama, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, prisoner, shoah, political intrigue, world war, biopic, writers, judaism, refugee ...
Time: year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place: italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, female nudity, nazi, fascism, terrorism, wartime, nazi concentration camp, renaissance, survival, concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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