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Franz + Polina (2006)
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Franz + Polina (2006)
Original name: Франц + Полина
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
Style: exciting, touching, captivating, suspense
Plot: german soldier, deserter, nazi, soldier, occupation, world war two, military, war, relationships, forbidden love, wartime, love affair, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, wartime life, love, first love, nazi germany, village, woman, ss, false identity, tragic love
Time: post world war two
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and romantic films with plots about world war two, wartime, love affair, soldier, male female relationship, wartime life and relationships mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Franz + Polina: Suite Française (2014), Dresden (2006), Silence of the Sea (2004), Warsaw 44 (2014), Summer Solstice (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Dresden (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
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Story: At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
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Silence of the Sea (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
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Warsaw 44 (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
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Summer Solstice (2015)
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, period piece
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
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Duration: 119 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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