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Entrusted (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, survival, prodigy, boy genius, coming of age, on the run, young heroes, heroic mission, youth, danger, against humanity, rivalry, nazi, chess, german soldier, childhood, special forces, world war, heroes, chases and races, child in peril, holocaust, motorcycle, boy, gunfight ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, 40s
Place:
france, europe, switzerland, geneva switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about world war two, danger, nazi, holocaust, survival, against humanity and world war mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like Entrusted: Run Boy Run (2013), The Island on Bird Street (1997), The Statement (2003), Operation E (2012), Surviving with Wolves (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, political, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
war criminal, politics, world war two, investigation, murder, justice, nazi, espionage, on the run, law enforcement, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
france, vichy, europe, paris france, provence ...
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
jungle, captivity, race against time, escapades, rescue, confined, danger, rebellion, political unrest, baby, human spirit, conflict ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
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Place:
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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, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has ...
Style:
noir, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
world war two, persecution, sauna, gestapo, torture, pursuit, loss of loved one, uncle nephew relationship, black cat, hunting, hunter, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london, germany
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
18 year old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of gypsies. He is about to celebrate his baptism when his half-brother Fred returns after fifteen years in prison. Together, with their last brother, the violent, hot-headed Michael and their Christian ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
arkansas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doris soon was out of the Nazi's hands and met up with her family.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
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Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
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Place:
bulgaria
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Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, gloomy, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, chess, world war, bunker, d day, survival, claustrophobia, battles, holocaust, wartime life, prison, against humanity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, gypsy, french resistance, racism, holocaust, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, rebellion, family in danger, concentration camp, rebelliousness ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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243
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, tense, captivating, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, missing person, holocaust, occupation, wartime life, against humanity, haunted by the past, family disapproval, children in wartime, boy, family secret, jewish family ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 1940s, 50s
Place:
europe, israel, paris france, france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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18%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, revenge, vengeance, french resistance, sex on first date, rape, nazi, world war, ss officer, secret passageway, war atrocity, one man army ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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